This season of The Crown did not help rehabilitate Charles and Camilla. And then the actor wins the Golden Globe. Kind of amusing.

My guess is that the whole thing crumbles away when Charles ascends the throne. 

Its astonishing to me that he is still playing ‘loyal’ party guy. I mean why. Talk about lack of self respect. Karen should step in, tell him to retire and go do something else. 

I’m going with ‘not a good look ‘ for the palace. It really should not be a question any more as to why the Sussex family moved out of the line of fire. Its all pretty vile.

Well its being reported here - and I’m guessing elsewhere - so somebody must think this is newsworthy.  The fact that Pence was actively threatened and the President and apparently the GOP collectively shrugged their shoulders about it tells me that the GOP doesn’t respect Pence and probably has no interest in his…

So ‘the palace’ had no intention to look into this three years ago ..... or they did look into it and found nothing..... but someone is actively talking to the press and now the story has got legs. Even if there was a problem within the palace with staff, this should have been a confidential matter, no?

I’m kind of surprised that anyone cares what Mike Pence thinks. 

So wasn’t this complaint made quite a while ago? Has it been investigated? Or are they just now ‘looking into it’. Yet again the gutter press seems to be enhancing a report of an allegation. 

I’m guessing there isn’t much to report. She doesn’t appear to have job. No fashion business, no advising the president, no consulting to the family company. Maybe no friends except the family circle. 

Spot on. Prince Andrew’s alleged transgressions are a fair bit more serious than a vague report by an unnamed assistant about Meghan being rude to her that one time.

Which has nothing to do with my original post. Outside of the government (where it is required) most of the population (by numbers) would not be considered bilingual in Canada. And one of the reasons that is true is because a second (learned) language requires frequent use and practice in daily life before one can…

I can’t imagine why you would conclude from my posts that I am victim blaming, sticking up for creepy guys who make inappropriate requests, supporting sexual harassment or anything in that category. I am saying there is a difference between a 7 year old victim and a 17 year old victim and those cases needed to be…

There are some differences though. Diana was set up in opposition to her husband and his family. Both she and Charles were seen to be dishing the dirt on each other in some kind of revenge story. The royal family (at that time) were not completely entranced with the overwhelming media coverage of Diana (both good and…

‘The Palace’ is such a ridiculous construct of the media. The queen has her hands full right now with a husband who is hospitalized. Andrew has nothing to say on the matter nor should he. I’m sure Princess Anne doesn’t give a fuck - she has always pretty much done her own thing anyhow. Edward and Sophie? Highly doubt…

I believe the original posts were trying to underline the point that pedophilia and sexual abuse are the same thing legally. Which is problematic in that pedophiles are interested in children ie. those children who have not reached puberty. The next category would be youth (if there was such a category). Teens who…

I agree they are creepy men and they are engaging in what I would consider creepy behaviour. The dilemma is when does creepy become illegal?

In Ontario you can drive at 16 but you can’t vote until you are 19. At one time you couldn’t drink alcohol until 21, then it was dropped to 18 and then it was raised to 19. There is a lot of arbitrary dates being set for when a youth becomes an adult.

You have expressed the conundrum very well. Pedophilia is not the same as predatory behaviour. A child does not magically become an adult at the age of 18 or 19 or whatever the age of consent may be in various locales. There is a lot of nuance here.

I think you mean New Brunswick has a small population with a larger proportion of bilingual speakers. There is a difference. 

It may be a bad reason but I actually know someone who did just this -