She said they were trying to change the rule so that even after Charles becomes king, Archie would still not be a prince:

The queen is a part of the firm, as are the other royals. But there are also tons of other employees who keep it running and wield a solid amount of power. At the end of the day it’s a big bureaucracy. The queen herself is almost 95, and a lot of the day-to-day power and decision-making has been passed down to Charles.

Under normal circumstances, yes, the queen has the final say—but the queen is 95. A lot of the day-to-day has been offloaded onto Charles, officially or unofficially. (And a lot of the things that Harry and Meghan were talking about—titles, funding—are things that would have been under his purview. He’s been trying to…

The “source” is Harry and Meghan, or someone speaking for them. The point isn’t that newspapers wouldn’t publish the information; it’s that H&M want to reward Omid with the “scoop” because they have a long-standing relationship with him.

Yeah, the lack of specificity really makes it impossible to make heads or tails of the allegations. There’s a lot of unspecified “confrontations” and people being terrified of her/being brought to tears/etc., but very little description of what she supposedly did to make that happen. I’ve read several articles on…

Scobie is essentially Harry and Meghan’s mouthpiece. So he is well-connected and doesn’t make things up—but there’s definitely going to be a pro-Meghan/Harry spin to it.

Yeah, we got a million leaked stories from Meghan’s staff in 2018, about how difficult she was to work with, and how it was driving assistants away. And the examples for how she was “difficult” were things like: she wakes up at 5 AM, she sometimes texts her assistants as much as 6-7 times a day, she wants to write or…

Emmanuel can try, but he wasn’t very good at it.

How does it actually serve anyone for him to lose his job?

This would stop her frivolous lawsuit 

In terms of the vote, it’s definitely more split, but they did narrowly vote for it in November, and their current governor is a member of the pro-statehood party who’s made it one of the goals for his term to pursue statehood ... So they’re at least going to take the next few steps. The next step is for them to…

I think you’re making assumptions that Mills’ role is something other than it was here. He wasn’t just a “behind-the-scenes” guy; we’re not talking about an audio editor here or something. There were two reporters on the podcast, and he was one of them. He was also the exec producer who made the final creative calls…

Yes, if you know what percentage of the electorate they’re going to be. The problem is that that’s always an estimate, and over the last four years, especially, turnout has been pretty unpredictable.

It’s made clear that the emails go beyond the context of a professional relationship. That’s why she got fired from her job. If they were professional emails, she wouldn’t have been fired.

The name was in the letter but redacted when it was publicly released. I don’t know if the reporter saw the redacted or unredacted version.

No. Shkreli’s own lawyers referred to a fiancee when they petitioned to get him out of prison this spring. (And Elle almost certainly would require some kind of proof that she’s not just fully inventing it.)

It’s a Wonderful Life I can understand—it isn’t really a movie about Christmas so much as a movie where stuff happens at Christmastime. It’s Christmas legacy is mostly cemented by decades of December reruns, but the story works at any time of year. Miracle on 34th Street in May is inexplicable, though.

The complications of abolishing the monarchy would be pretty immense ... just to raise one issue, the royal family at own point owned a huge amount of land/industry/real estate which eventually became the Crown Estate. Now technically neither the royal family nor the UK government owns it but both benefit from it.…

There was considerable debate over who did it. The judge in the British libel trial concluded that Depp most likely did it to himself.

The large checks largely have already stopped rolling in. He’d only been kept in Fantastic Beasts because he’d been cast in the franchise before the worst of the damage to his reputation had been made public. Disney had already essentially cut him from future Pirates movies, and that obviously meant they wouldn’t…