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Harry Attacks the Press As Meghan Sues Mail on Sunday Veteran newsman Sissons dead at 77 - page 3 California’s British Accent ™ - Since 1984 Saturday, October 5, 2019 • Number 1803 Always Free Harry attacks the press as Meghan sues Mail On Sunday n Prince says he can no longer be a “silent witness to her private suffering” THE TENSE relationship between Harry, Meghan and the British media took a turn for the worse this week, as it emerged that the Duchess plans to sue the Mail on Sunday. The legal action is acceptable, at any level. We individual. Pursuing legal a consequence of the won’t and can’t believe in action on this narrow basis newspaper’s decision to a world where there is no also gives the royals a publish a handwritten accountability for this. greater chance of success letter Meghan had sent to “Though this action may against DMG Media, her estranged father. not be the safe one, it is the formerly Associated The decision came right one … I’ve seen what Newspapers, which also as Prince Harry launched happens when someone owns the Daily Mail and an extraordinary and I love is commoditized to MailOnline – both of which highly personal attack on the point that they are no have run a substantial the British tabloid press and longer treated or seen as a number of stories about its treatment of his wife, real person. Meghan. PRINCE HARRY: “I’ve seen what happens when someone I love is commoditized saying he could no longer The Mail on Sunday has to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person.” be a “silent witness to her embarrassing stories run multiple embarrassing private suffering”. “I lost my mother and stories involving the Emphasizing his now I watch my wife duchess’s father, Thomas prompting the decision to Africa, have employed the as truth across the globe. respect for the importance falling victim to the same Markle, including staged focus on the publication libel lawyers Schillings, One day’s coverage is no of “objective, truthful powerful forces.” paparazzi photographs of Meghan’s letter to her using private funds to longer tomorrow’s chip- reporting”, he accused The statement, issued of him visiting an internet father. bring the case. paper. parts of the media of on the Duke and Duchess cafe to read about his In his statement, Harry “I have been a silent ‘human cost’ “waging campaigns of Sussex’s official website daughter’s engagement to emphasised that he and witness to her private against individuals on Tuesday, was published the prince. The photographs of the Meghan believed in “media suffering for too long. To with no thought to the as Meghan moved to start Other critical coverage letter remain available on freedom and objective, stand back and do nothing consequences” and proceedings in the high of the couple has ranged MailOnline. A spokesman truthful reporting” would be contrary to compared the treatment of court over the misuse from their use of private for the newspaper stood as a “cornerstone of everything we believe in.” his wife to coverage of his of private information, jets to their refusal to allow by its reporting, setting democracy”. When news of his mother, Princess Diana. infringement of copyright media coverage of the up a potential court “There is a human relationship with The duke said his and breach of General christening of their baby showdown: “The Mail cost to this relentless Meghan Markle became “deepest fear is history Data Protection Regulation son Archie or name his on Sunday stands by the propaganda, specifically public, he criticised “racial repeating itself”. He wrote: (GDPR). godparents. They have story it published and when it is knowingly false overtones” in reporting. “There comes a point when The Mail on Sunday is also been criticized for the will be defending this case and malicious, and though Last week, it emerged the only thing to do is to thought to be vulnerable £2.4m cost to the public vigorously. Specifically, we we have continued to put he had complained to stand up to this behaviour, to the action because under purse for renovations categorically deny that the on a brave face – as so the BBC for broadcasting because it destroys people UK law the authors of at their Windsor home, Duchess’s letter was edited many of you can relate to and publishing online an and destroys lives. Put letters retain ownership of Frogmore Cottage. in any way that changed – I cannot begin to describe image from a neo-Nazi simply, it is bullying, which the copyright even after the However, the royals have its meaning.” how painful it has been. social media site that called scares and silences people. physical correspondence is limited ability to stop the Meghan and Harry, “Because in today’s him a “race traitor” and We all know this isn’t in the possession of another publication of such stories, who this week concluded digital age, press depicted the royal with a a 10-day tour of southern fabrications are repurposed gun pointed at his head. News from Britain 2-5 • Crossword 9 • Stargazing 9 • Sudoku 9 • Brits in LA 10 • Meet A Member 11 • Sport 18-20 Page 2 The british Weekly, Sat. October 5, 2019 News From Britain Your border plan is a non-starter, Boris told n EU firmly rebuffs PM’s Irish plan, says deal cannot be made by Oct. 31st deadline The European Union has Angela Merkel, said that who warned MEPs on warned Boris Johnson there would not be time Tuesday night that Britain that his alternative to to find a deal by the end of was trying to trap the EU the Irish backstop was the month. into a deal that would unacceptable and a deal “One thing is clear: undermine the single would not be done in Johnson’s Brexit plan can’t market. time for his October 31 be negotiated [before] EU sources said that Brexit deadline. Oct 31. If UK is serious Mr Barnier was again Boris Johnson’s proposals were dismissed by the EU’s chief Speaking on Thursday, about this, it must seek expected “to let rip and negotiator as a ‘repackaging of bad ideas’ and ‘nearly impossible’ Simon Coveney, Ireland’s extension,” he tweeted offload his true feelings” figures lined up this week uncertain, provisional, Cash, another hardliner, foreign minister, said the today. when he briefed European to signal that Britain’s unilateral, instead of the said that the proposals proposals unveiled this Guy Verhofstadt, the ambassadors later. negotiating strategy was safety net provided for by were “welcome”. week had “fundamental European parliament’s But the hardline stance falling apart. the backstop”. Jeremy Corbyn, the problems” and that unless chief Brexit negotiator, from Ireland angered the While the EU “The Northern Irish Labour leader, hinted they were substantially said that Mr Johnson’s Democratic Unionist Party, fundamentally objects to assembly has not sat that he was prepared to revised they could not proposals were a which has come out in the British demand for for nearly three years remove the whip from form the basis of a deal. “repackaging of bad favour of Mr Johnson’s a new customs border and it is questionable Labour MPs if they voted Donald Tusk, the ideas that have already proposals. Arlene Foster, in Ireland, opposition in whether it would be able for Mr Johnson’s deal in president of the European been floated” and “nearly the party’s leader, accused Brussels has focused on to reconvene and take on the Commons. Council, said that the impossible” to implement. Ireland of trying to proposals to allow the the responsibility for an He said: “Deal or no EU would “stand A statement issued by “ride roughshod over Northern Ireland assembly international treaty of this deal, this government’s fully behind” Ireland the parliament Brexit unionism”. to vote, every four years, nature,” the committee’s agenda is clear: they want against pressure for its committee, chaired by “Mr Coveney’s rejection on regulatory alignment statement said. a Trump-deal Brexit. government to cave into Mr Verhofstadt, said that of a reasonable offer is with the single market. There were also signs A Trump-deal Brexit Mr Johnson’s demand for the proposal in its present paving the road for a no- Echoing Mr Barnier’s that hardline Eurosceptics, that would crash our a new customs border on form could not be the basis deal exit because unionism objections, according to EU known as the “Spartans”, economy and rip away the island. for talks. will not allow Northern sources, Mr Verhofstadt’s were softening their the standards that put a “My message to Boris “This is unacceptable,” Ireland to be trapped at Brexit committee warned position. Mark Francois, floor under people’s rights Johnson: we remain open the statement said, noting the whim of Dublin or the that allowing the veto a leading Eurosceptic, at work, that protect our but still unconvinced,” “grave concerns” about EU,” she said. would render any future indicated that he could environment and protect he said, after a 20-minute proposals that “do not The prime minister is agreement “contingent, back the deal, while Sir Bill our consumers.” telephone call with the match even remotely hoping that the EU will go prime minister. Mr Tusk what was agreed as a into intensive and formal earlier held talks with sufficient compromise in treaty negotiations to get a Scots first in UK to ban smacking Leo Varadkar, the Irish the backstop”. deal in time for a summit Scotland has become the charities.
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