When he was 18, the Duke of Sussex vowed to finish the work started by his mother, Princess Diana.
More than two decades on, he remains true to his word. On Monday, he will take to the stage before a global audience to champion two causes intrinsically linked to her legacy: landmines and young people.
Prince Harry, 40, will be the star guest at five high-profile events held over two days in New York during UN General Assembly High-Level Week and Climate Week, which will also see him focus on conservation, sustainable travel and the many crises facing the tiny African country of Lesotho.
Still, guess that’s 5 new outfits the Meg gets out of it.
Being the star guest is as close to work as this annoying thicko will ever get.
It’s this sort of thing that makes you start to appreciate landmines.
Like TMB, I did chuckle at the choice of word…
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Of course landmines are good. It’s silly having a ban on them because the moment there’s another bloke in Germany with a toothbrush moustache who has an army at Calais and is talking about invasion, we’ll have parliament scrapping the law and people working overtime making them to put on the beaches.
War is about having whatever kills the other guy. When faced with the possibility of defeat, invasion, mass executions and daughters being raped, we’d be using child soldiers, landmines, nukes, chemical weapons before that happened.
It’s the sort of stupidness and decadence that seemed to emerge about the same time as Princess Diana. I don’t think she was the cause but a symptom.
Quite right WB. What weapon are both sides using in Ukraine? Land mines. Very effective area denial weapons. Their purpose is not to kill or maim people or destroy or damage vehicles. Simply to deny that area to an enemy. Far less life threatening than an artillery barrage.
When he was 18, the Duke of Sussex vowed to finish the work started by his mother, Princess Diana.
Well, to be fair he is an attention-seeking whore.
WB, BiS – Ukraine is the most heavily mined country in the world now. While this is very effective at slowing or killing armoured vehicles (Russian and Ukrainian), it’s going to be a nightmare of a task to demine the place after the war ends. People will probably be dying or losing limbs to mines in Donbass for the next 50 years. No telling how much productive farmland has been ruined by landmines.
That doesn’t mean Princess Di and the Eurotwats, who think warfare can be regulated by prissy French lawyers, are right. Mines are a superb weapon. It’s fighting wars that’s the bad idea. The slow destruction of Ukraine mirrors the grinding down and eventual destruction of Germany between 1943-45. Despite everyone already knowing the outcome of the war, the war must still be fought because none of the political leaders involved is willing to back down. It’s a shite state of affairs, and the solution was to kill Hitler and then surrender.
We are ruled by Unserious People. Their luxury belief that you can simply legislate for a nicer, kinder, more inclusive World War 3 is echoed in their luxury belief that Europe can keep supporting a war against Russia but Russia won’t be able to hit back because we’re playing “I’m not touching you” games with our definitions u.
He will, of course, not actually be removing any land mines.
Prince Harry, 40, will be the star guest at five high-profile events held over two days in New York during UN General Assembly High-Level Week and Climate Week, which will also see him focus on conservation, sustainable travel
Thanks for flying to New York to promote “sustainable travel”, fuckface.
It comes after his 40th birthday celebrations, when he said that his mission was “continue showing up and doing good in the world”,
Posh scrounger who has never done anything good in his life vows to preen in front of the cameras for us.
His involvement will also help to position the Duke and Duchess’s relatively nascent Archewell Foundation, alongside big philanthropic big-hitters such as the Clinton Global Initiative on the international stage.
It’s to fill their pockets with money just like the Clinton crime family’s fake charity does.
In an interview to mark his 18th birthday in 2002, the Duke said that his mother had inspired him to carve a future role for himself in championing lesser-known causes.
“I want to carry on the things that she didn’t quite finish,” he said.
Go for a drive in Paris then.
PS – does anybody remember when the plant-bothering bedwetter who now styles himself “King Charles” told us we had only 100 months to “act”, before “climate change” became irreversible?
I’m asking because that was in 2009 and King Tampon seems to have forgotten.
Anti personnel mines that have been banned, anti tank mines are still allowed.
“ the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction. This international agreement prohibits the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of anti-personnel mines, and requires states to destroy their stockpiles and clear all mined areas.”
That doesn’t make it much better, anti personnel mines are good for defensive perimeters and ambushes. The problem is and was their indiscriminate use and not keeping maps of where they are laid. And of course our enemies haven’t ratified the treaties so once again we’re tying our hands behind our backs to placate high minded moralists.
I see no reason why we shouldn’t be producing and stockpiling, I have no problem banning the sale of them to 3rd parties outside a few trusted allies.
Jug Ears is entirely correct. Climate change has been irreversible for 3½ billion years. So it was irreversible in 2017.