High Court judge might have done the world a favour by tearing apart Prince Harry’s baseless claims
Harry’s ‘truth’
WHEN the judge colourfully tore apart a key plank of Prince Harry’s case against The Sun this week, millions will have wearily nodded along.
Harry’s baseless claims of a supposed secret pact between us and the royals — with the late Queen’s approval — lacked “credibility”, said Mr Justice Fancourt at the High Court.
His case was “improbable” and “inherently unlikely”, his testimony “inconsistent”, “vague and limited”.
There was an “absence of any other witness or documentary evidence to support it”.
None of these criticisms will surprise anyone who has endured Harry’s dismal outpourings since he abandoned royal duties to make a living settling scores in the Californian sunshine.
They certainly will not have surprised his family in Windsor, nor anyone else targeted by his accusations . . . most of those also “inherently unlikely”, “vague” and “inconsistent”.
When the Queen said “recollections may vary”, she was being polite.
The only people perhaps surprised by the judge were Harry’s stupendously self-regarding lawyers and, above all, Harry himself and his wife Meghan.
Both have come to think that anything they feel or believe — their “truth” — qualifies as fact regardless of whether it can be proved or indeed ever took place.
Mr Justice Fancourt has reminded the Prince that hazy assertions he might get away with in a book or on Oprah don’t pass muster in court.
In doing so he might just have done the world a favour.
Calamity Khan
DRIVEN by ideology and climate panic, London’s woeful Labour Mayor will now wilfully inflict hardship on the lowest-paid and colossal harm on the capital’s economy.
The deranged expansion of Sadiq Khan’s Ulez scheme across the city may be legal, but it is unconscionable.
It is a blatant fund-raiser for City Hall which will destroy firms, jobs and family finances in the outer boroughs.
Those impacted will mainly be working-class people who cannot afford a newer car or van to beat Khan’s emissions tax.
They will be hammered for £12.50 every day they use their vehicle.
The sums he is offering owners to scrap them are a derisory fraction of a cleaner replacement.
Khan would have you believe London is a smog-bound pollution hotspot only a new tax can clean up.
In fact its air has never been cleaner in modern times.
His favourite scare story, that 4,000 Londoners die early from pollution every year, is statistical sleight of hand.
He wouldn’t be able to list those people, for a good reason.
Khan has been a disaster for the capital, as its rampant crime proves.
But only next month will Londoners taste the full extent of his ineptitude.
Since the city is the engine room of our economy, we must all brace for the impact.