News about Peggy Noonan

ROSS KEMPSELL: For weeks I had lived with the text draft, one of the few people with direct access to the words that the Prime Minister will deliver just hours later... High politics in Britain is like Japanese kabuki theatre, and the Prime Minister's address is the most notable act. With a series of brainstorming sessions, a writer's story began months before. Eager MPs and activists embark on a campaign of blatant (and often ineffective) lobbying to insert their preferred ideas or policies.

CalLAHAN: It may be better, as Machiavelli wrote, to be afraid rather than loved at any time. Surely Prince Harry was hoping that his memoir would put fear in the hearts of Buckingham Palace. But what he didn't anticipate?Becoming a global laughingstock. And, in the process, he was also fading his late mother's memories. Suffering approval ratings have deteriorated. Space shuttles are crashing to earth less often. Imagine Harry and Meghan's pre-publication fantasies! They must have imagined the world at their backs, furious that Harry got the smaller bedroom at Balmoral and that Charles isn't much a hugger, and sadly, they applauded Harry and Meghan for enduring such agony so bravely. Not since JFK Jr. did America have its own sweet prince! Any CEO and disruptor, as well as a woke protester, will name Meghan as president someday. Harry and Meghan's esteem will rise in direct proportion to the royal family's death, which they engineered. Karma has a way of kicking in one's teeth, alas. According to a new poll conducted by Newsweek on Wednesday, Americans are well and truly put off by the gruesome twosome.