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For years, the Duke of Sussex was trapped in a stifling world of meaningless protocol, emotional illiteracy, artificial language and stale ritual gestures. Who can blame him for wanting to break free and create a new life for himself and his wife in America, where they’ll be valued for what they do rather than who they are?
But a noble aspiration is one thing. The emerging reality looks worryingly like one of those “How It Started/How It’s Going” memes. Take, for instance, his latest gig. He’s to be “Commissioner on Information Disorder” at the nonprofit Aspen Foundation, sitting on a panel holding a six-month inquiry into the spread of misinformation online.
And this is how he announced it:
“As I’ve said, the experience of today’s digital world has us inundated with an avalanche of misinformation, affecting our ability as individuals as well as societies to think clearly and truly understand the world we live in. It’s my belief that this is a humanitarian issue and as such, it demands a multi-stakeholder response from advocacy voices, members of the media, academic researchers, and both government and civil society leaders. I’m eager to join this new Aspen commission and look forward to working on a solution-oriented approach to the information disorder crisis.”
Just cherish every word of that: “multi-stakeholder response”, “advocacy voices”, “civil society leaders”, “solution-oriented approach”. Leaving aside the questionable metaphor in that clunking first sentence (can you be inundated by an avalanche?), here is a full card of Bullshit Bingo. These are expressions that no ordinary English-speaking human being has ever uttered spontaneously aloud or written without irony; they are the zombie catchphrases of a corporate PR department.
I have no way of knowing for sure that this is not how Prince Harry naturally expresses himself. But I hope it won’t be considered lèse-majesté to say, I hae ma doots. And in a way it doesn’t matter. It is a sign of how far in the shit we are that many, if not most, people will assume it was written for him, and won’t think anything much of it.
Not only do we consume misinformation but we expect to, and correct for it, and blithely wave through what looks like misinformation even when it’s contained in the announcement of someone “eager” to embark on a new job waging war on misinformation.
Corporate, comms-style bullshit presented as personal from-the-heart statements is so normalised that it looks like nitpicking to even raise the question. Of course you’re not actually supposed to think that Prince Harry thinks anything of the sort, or that if he did, this is how he’d tell you about it. Don’t be so naive!
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SubscribeGood to see that it’s now ok to hire a rich white male educated at Eton.
Only because he’s a ginger
I for one am delighted that we’ll have a real duke to tell us what is true and what is false in the real world.
A real, multi-millionaire Duke.
As they say in France – a trou du’c!
who complained about having his pocket money cut off.
At the age of 36.
I’m thrilled! “tells us what is true and what is false” but abrogates his responsibilities and obligations to his nation of birth, sells out his family for a few Netflix bucks, including a grandmother that adores him, he does it while her husband is ill in hospital… All ’cause daddy wouldn’t give him pocket money… Picks up an amazing high paying job without Uni, but goes on about the evils of privilage and how very bad we all must be, all while living in a 14 million dollar house…
Yes, hasn’t he done well for himself!.
Well, it is his choice and I wish him all the best. But it does seem like he’s gone from the frying pan into the fire somewhat. Spouting empty phrases and being a figurehead as a member of the Royal family at least had a sense of rootedness in history and tradition…spouting a confection of a Californian corporate jargon seems even more vacuous, even more likely to give way and plunge him into emptiness. The weather is better there at least.
He annoys the hell out of me but to be honest I’m beginning to feel sorry for him. He is clearly out of his depth, away from everything he’s ever known and heading into a swamp of dangerous, post-modernist, woke ideology that he does not understand. His problems are compounded by the fact that he is being egged on by an unscrupulous, mendacious wife who is willing to cry ‘racism’ every time someone fails to adore her as much as she adores herself.
Being the very epitome of ‘White Privilege’, Harry could find the swamp infested with alligators. His royal title will not be an advantage if they set their sights on him.
You are too kind to him. Does he not have “agency”, to use one of the current buzzwords? Is he not his own man? Did he take nothing on board as an army officer?
Absolutely correct & his days of real meaning in life are now gone (Soldiering). Now, his only meaning in life will be his children.
He won’t do a days work for them.
Well of course not. The whole point is to have his face and name on their work.
TBF, I can’t imagine Anybody has ever done a days work at either organisation, so he’ll be in good company.
As a lone voice I was shouted down when he was forced to walk behind his mother’s coffin not being allowed to cry whilst 1000s weeper with grief over a woman they never met. As we learn more about complex CPTSD relating to trauma in childhood, I’m not surprised he kicked off at press who were stoked up I suspect by a new Labour pm who wanted to modernise the monarchy.
I lost my mother and experienced abandonment and in a family which is not known to show emotion, well I became a people pleaser who attracted narcissistic people. I was the scapegoat of the family, who is sacrificed and bullied for everything wrong.
As I look at Prince Harry, who seemed to have found his tribe in the forces, I can see how he has potentially attracted a narcissist (narcissistic personality disorder or strong traits if not fully NPD).
He was targeted clearly, his reality has been changed to blame the press on everything, he has been isolated from family members and the race card comes after we see the or nightmare of potential bullying by a princess when 3 of her assistants left in 6 months. Bullying in workplaces is unacceptable and just as impactful as race discrimination, although that is not proven.
Step back and look at how two or three friends and many members were dumped or what they call a narcissistic discard. It’s normally callous like sending your wedding ring in the post to tell someone the marriage is over, I’ve landed a bigger fish.
I do not have proof but if you have ever experienced narcissistic abuse, there are a number of warning signs that are too many to ignore. 18 months ago the Queen gave the couple 25 million, the racist so and so. They opened the doors to her although some minor royal wore a black moor broach but we all know she’s idiotic.
He’s been an idiot occasionally but this is not PH, he’s been manipulated into taking jobs he isn’t interested in which is about their PR and her causes. Add to that how she seems happier and happier and he looks iller and more miserable.
There’s too many red flags here and if you don’t understand narcissistic abuse which happens to CEOs etc, gaslighting means you doubt your reality and take on the narcissists which in this case is it’s all racism.
The only solution break away and no contact or limit it to the conversations about sharing children.
This is happening to 1000s like me and one day it could touch one of your close family members or friends. Narcissistic people are in workplaces too but they’re the friend the more you do for them, the more you seem to be apologising for arguments that you apologise for but actually you just organised their birthday party, or the mother in law from hell usually, husbands or wives whatever.
I have no proof/this is conjecture but the narrative being fed, … don’t swallow it. A princess who was a second rate actress given that position, 25 million, living near Oprah, playing a victim after a year pandemic where families were struggling with finances and deaths of relatives. Seriously. And with that amount of money she can afford a fairly decent psychiatrist and therapist if she was suffering. I was on a waiting list in nhs for therapy for CPTSD and 3 1/2 years later I just gave up. I moved and so I have to start all over again I have been informed.
Then Meghan Markle says she suffered.
I’ll leave it there.
During my career people constantly brought me solutions, as Harry intends to do. Unfortunately, most of the time they hadn’t defined the problem they were trying to solve.
I love that, and so true.
I pity the poor bloke TBH. He should have took more notice of what happened the last time a member of the royal family married an American gold digger. Those who do not learn from history…………
Depending on who you believe, Wallis Simpson was a far cry from Meghan Markle as there can be.
Good point.
Or as Simpson’s biographer Charles Higham put it:
“…facts were remorselessly rearranged in what amounted to a self-performed face-lift.”
And… “charismatic, electric and compulsively ambitious.”
MM seems to know a little about the face-lifts and ambition.
A few years ago letters sent by her to her former lover were discovered. They revealed how desperately bored she was with her royal consort, but how, after all the fuss and upheaval of leveraging him away from his family, she was in no position to divorce him. She dutifully stayed with him until the end.
Her’s truly was a story of ‘be careful of what you wish for.’
Maybe the Markles are competing with Nick Clegg and Facebook, itself a relationship that beggars belief.
I wonder how much Harry will contribute to meetings in his new jobs. Still, every court needs its jester.
I have a feeling this is where their marriage will start to crumble.
Mr Markle is still good for one more kid. that kid will be the Hollywood child born in the correct country in an area of pure progressiveness. Then there will be the talk show publicity circuit and $1millon dollar cheques that go with that, but after that when the likes and retweets start to dwindle, then Queen Megan of California will rise phoenix like from the clutches of her patriarchal, racist abusive husband, and the talk show publicity circuit and $1millon dollar cheques……
Crikey George, I reckon your right. Errm, …… any idea what next weeks lottery numbers are my friend?
Sorry Steve, my powers of precognition are limited solely to the Gingerbread Mountbattenburg. The source of my powers is that I was actually born on the same day as Mr Markle. All kids born that day got a gift pack from the royal family, nappies, blankets, psychic powers and the like, so I don’t actually bare Harry any ill will. Glad I got born in to my family rather than his to be honest.
She intends to run for president in 2024. If she loses, it will be further ‘confirmation’ of how misogynistic and racist America is.
I used to hear that in France about Sarkozy and Carla Bruni and yet, more than a decade later. that odd couple are still together.
Even if one half of that couple is in jail (or maybe going there anyway).
Carla Bruni is not a Netflix duchess.
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:
1. What am I trying to say?
2. What words will express it?
3. What image or idiom will make it clearer?
4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
And he will probably ask himself two more:
1. Could I put it more shortly?
2. Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?
But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you — even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent — and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
In bold is what is going on with Harry Hewitt right now.
No Meghan probably writes it all for him ;P
That way he doesn’t have to go to the trouble at all.
But then maybe she wouldn’t let him either. He’s still only a figurehead for her ambition.
I apologise for the length of this letter. I didn’t have the time to make it shorter. – Mark Twain
It’s all fascinating in a rather macabre way, watching them self destruct voluntarily. Hopefully we agree that no ordinary person would waste a minute trying to work out what he is, or isn’t, saying. It was their choice so I am happy to let them get on with it.
It is not ‘they’. It is him.
I almost stopped reading at that point. If your assertion is correct why did they start, and continue, by trading on their family name and title?
… ha ha . . .you’re so cute!
I worry about Harry. I just don’t think all this is going to end well. He seems like a lamb led to the slaughter.
Yes in fact for all my sarcasm, I feel he used to be a bit of a happy idiot, but in that he had a natural honest charm – look at him now and he is just a sad miserable man with a dominating manipulative power hungry social climber wife. Where he is the happy idiot, she is the unhappy manipulator/narcisist. Nothing she touches in relationships ends well. The happy idiot is in love with an unhappy ending.
Thank you Natalija. You said it very well. So sad for Harry. He is in over his head.
I wish I still lived in Santa Barbara. Perhaps Meghan and I could then meet shopping at the local Safeway grocery store. Tap carts as a friendly hello . . .
Phew! I was beginning to worry they weren’t giving jobs to public school-educated white boys these days.
…that’s a load off . . .
He will be back in a few years, sans wife, sans kitchen, sans everything.
Sadly that is a likely possibility.
…sans 15 bathrooms.
Sans testicles.
He might get custody of the chickens
I watched a show on television last night it must have been for Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday a few years ago. I did not see all of it but Harry was interviewed and he sounded like a completely different person than he sounds today. He talked about duty and honor and how his grandmother embodied than for longer than any other English monarch. It was stunning. Not a thing about racism or wokeism. What happened to this poor guy?
It was reported today that the partner of his step-brother ( Tom Parker-Bowles) has died of cancer at the age of 42 ,leaving 3 young children. She was a victim of treat only covid and forget the rest policy. This might explain why even his father and brother are a bit tired of Harry ,as he and his wife’s self-pity is just pathetic.
They aren’t half as tired of them as we are. The US lost by getting them back.
Hmm . . .at least they boosted the revenues of trashy celebrity newspapers one sees at market check outs.
Meghan happened. She with the slimy body parts, rows of sharp teeth, tentacles, and a coat of thick armor. Whatever happens down the line, she’ll be just fine. When will he, bruised and beaten, skulk back to the palace? 2026? Earlier? Later? How will the children be raised?
Mr. Leith,
I will, with your permission of course, use the quote below.
“here is a full card of Bullshit Bingo. These are expressions that no ordinary English-speaking human being has ever uttered spontaneously aloud or written without irony; they are the zombie catchphrases of a corporate PR department”
My local council’s communications are full of “non-hierarchical meeting spaces”, “cross-ethnic equality”, “celebrate rainfall”, “exploring opportunities to celebrate the 13 phases of the moon”. God save us from earnest, do-gooders.
Ha! This afternoon I was reading the latest update on ‘lockdown California’ (alas, my state of residence), and the jargon was astonishing in its opaqueness. I could only think its purpose was to give the impression of information without actually providing information.
Out of the frying pan and into deep water without a life-saving vest. Prince Harry has taken on invented and meaningless roles. And who on earth wants to listen to him now? He needs to get a real job and do something useful.
Like many little boys, Harry’s been given his Alphabetti Spaghetti and in the process of spooning it into his mouth has spilled it all over his bib. The letters have somehow formed a series of random words.
Also in the US, but by way of contrast, when ‘the-most-popular-president-evah’, a certain J Biden is given his by his ‘doctor’ wife and carer, the spillages are less intelligible.
Let’s do lunch . . .
I wonder what the men he commanded in the army would say about those statements? My guess is that when they picked themselves up off the floor after laughing so hard they’d say a whole bunch of words that are not repeatable in polite company!
They were very fond of him, and he them – he’s away from those that cherished his silly but honest cheerfulness – and hooked up to a very manipulative wife. Life for him is going to get very hard and very sad. Young and silly and following his nuts (for lack of better term) has got him into some serious family/soul wreaking trouble.
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Meghan is a deeply evil narcissist who cares nothing for anyone. Harry is a sad victim. I imagine the future child custody trials will be a nightmare as MM will hold them hostage to her ambitions.
Aspen = “Non-profit”; they might not be if they didn’t pay Harry.
CID & CIO – he’s basically the jolly green giant, or la vache qui rit on the packet, the bargain bin, plastic C3PO.
😉
Non-profit? Is that another way of saying loss-making?
It’s just word salad
“salad” is far too generous . . .
“Or you can speak plain English and make sure you’re clearly understood at all times. But don’t expect to ever get promoted.”
The Daily Mash, Employee asked to ‘socialise the idea and see if it gains traction’ hates that he knows what it means
“Who can blame him for wanting to break free and create a new life for himself and his wife in America, where they’ll be valued for what they do rather than who they are?”
Yet they cling to those royal titles, don’t they? Seems like they would be anxious to drop them if they want to be valued for what they do. And what is it that they do, again? How should we value their Netflix deal?
If Prince Harry wrote the qquote attributed to him, he might speak in empty idioms but at least he can use an Oxford comma!
And also write feeble psycho-babble.
He can write?
He does have two A levels (a B & a D), so presumably he can.
Fair point. But Art and Geography – are they not mainly colouring-in?
Oxford coma more like…. and then he got woke
very good
“can you be inundated by an avalanche?“
Well, I think so. Perhaps overwhelmed would be a better word, but an avalanche is water (in the form of snow) and so the concept of being flooded seems quite reasonable.
But as for the article as a whole, it is spot on.
No because an avalanche must go from higher to lower . Inundation is water flooding land and therefore from lower to higher level
The whole passage seems to be purposefully awful as if those paid to write it were having fun …
Harry is trying to outdo his missus and has swallowed a psychobabble bulls*** generator for sure!
‘rather than just letting these organisations put words in his mouth, he has allowed their empty idioms to soak into his very soul.‘
Yes indeed. You’ve seen right though the bs and thoroughly but concisely hit the nail on the head with this article.
BS it is undoubtedly. Harry is lost big time and under the thumb of his beloved Megan
I’m only waiting till the day he says no… I give them 5 years and some C grade biographic
Five years? The Great Separation in 2026? I wonder who will step away?
“Who can blame him for wanting to break free and create a new life for himself and his wife in America, where they’ll be valued for what they do rather than who they are?”
I’m not really sure he had a lot to do with the decision
“valued for what they do rather than who they are…”
Call me a skeptic… They are relying on who they are, its the only commodity they have… A b grade bit part actress and a mediocrely educated person got a job with a billion dollar startup why? A radiant smile? A netflix deal because?, An Oprah interview why? All earning millions…
They wanted to move where they are had monetary value over obligation.
In this I blame Meghan, harry was raised with a very strong loyalty to that ideal, but he follows his wife. (He is tiresome in other ways, but at least has some idea as to service to others)
Yeah like you I don’t think he had a choice either
Of course he had a choice. He can’t get off the hook that easily. He’s not just an innocent bystander. At least it’s all fodder for the columns.
My opinion is he got married faster than lightening because someone finally said “Yes”, not the best start but better than leaving your 30s still detached. Then hearing him speak on his own, and with his umms and stammer and not to be articulating clearly when it comes to speaking his thoughts. Then as an observation archwell is talked about, yet only small sums handed out I gather. Though no formal discussion or announcement seen by me, apart from tbe names foundations existance. Then to think if I was on the board of 15, my first priority would not to be worrying about disinformation that could take a lifetime to disentangle and then come back with no positive solution. Where I would start with the obvious, and take pornography off thhe www or if not make it subscription only. To me, I see this man self serving himself due to a complaining wife not liking what she reads when it comes to her. Therefore, to think if the www had a glowing tribute in her name on each presentation she gave, would they be sitting on the board? Well, I mean him, but her in spirit urging him on while looking after their other interests.
My previous comment relating this article to Facebook and Nick Clegg seems to have disappeared.
Have UnHerd been bought out (by one of the Californian oligarchs) ?
I think I saw it up above somewhere. I wish the threads would start from newest to oldest.
There’s an option to sort by Newest, Oldest or Most Voted.
“For years, the Duke of Sussex was trapped in a stifling world of meaningless protocol, emotional illiteracy, artificial language and stale ritual gestures” !!!. This is a delirious reproduction of the woke discourse on the ‘uselessness of monarchy today. Abolish it’. Royal protocol is certainly not more meaningless, stale, and artificial than Joe Biden’s first press conference, a ritual of tamed and subservient journalists with a decrepit hypocrite reading cheat sheets.
More concerning is that Harry’s expertise in dealing with mental health problems is limited to referring someone to their HR department.
Is there a caption competition? There should be.
“Lifting up critical dialogues. Over to you…Harry?”
“…here is a full card of Bullshit Bingo”
Priceless. I have no doubt whatsoever that Harry will bring his years of spouting Royal bullshit drivel experience to the fore in his new jobs. If only he can merge this with the occasional helicopter ride in army uniform, casually swinging an automatic rifle, he’ll have cracked it.
I think it’s more complicated. When people ‘fall in love’, they essentially become entangled, for better or worse. Meghan embodies something so emotionally compelling to him (dare I say – his mother) that he has no choice but to live out this ‘story’. I think there is a strong (dare I say) karmic element in all of this. Some deep part of him is wounded…he seems to long to summon the ghost of his mother, through a woman, who apparently has a life long ambition to in fact be his mother. If the shoe fits. A jungian psychologist would be able to shed more light on this.
Meghan seems obsessed with his mother to the extent of wearing clothes and jewellery designed to imitate Princess Dianas’ costumes and worn at the same public events-either/or to please Prince Harry or to spook his father and brother ( echos of the sub-plot of Hamlet) He has also married a woman who is part of a very political democrat group who wish to bring about radical social change ,a major part of which is to undermine traditional structures -which the Royal Family epitomize
She is obsessed with Diana’s looks. Not with what she did to help people. You won’t catch Markle sitting in a hospital with dying people. When she did have the opportunity to go to Africa and help people, what did she talk about? How no one asked how she was. She is the exact opposite of Diana.
How exactly does Meghan Markle embody Diana? Do you see her at hospitals holding the hands of people with diseases that everyone else is terrified of? Has she walked through landmine infested areas lately? Meghan has nothing whatsoever in common with Diana. Zero. She puts herself out for other people not at all. Diana did.
Meghan does not embody ( or even vaguely resemble ) Diana to us , but it seems she embodies some sort of ‘spirit of Diana’ to Prince Harry. He was young when Diana died and so probably hasn’t got a lot of specific memories of his mother but general ‘feelings’of her. As Meghan knows a lot about Diana ( and what she didn’t know her friends : Jessica , daughter in law of Canada’s former PM and Princess Eugenie, could help her with ) so can imitate her clothes and manner , this is either reassuring or believable to a person ( Harry ) who has problems. Whether Meghan is genuine in her affection for Harry or has an ulterior motive-helping to take down the British Royalty , who knows?
Interesting . . .
Sadly instrumentalized (Capitalist colonized) language is the reigning (Bernays) latter day mode of expression; and, the supreme form of dys-information. At the recent killings in Atlanta & Boulder the “my-heart-goes-out-to-the-family-and-friends” locution serviced 99% of the official-comment market; and, “horrific” was the “iconic” descriptor of our Grub Street. But finally, is it not a logical impossibility to be authentic and survive out in the Capitalist Cosmos? Aren’t we all in The Firm?
Seriously folks. The fact that people thought I was serious is very worrying. Does it show just how difficult it is to distinguish fact from reality now?
“Leaving aside the questionable metaphor in that clunking first sentence (can you be inundated by an avalanche?), here is a full card of Bullshit Bingo.”
Of course you can be inundated by an avalanche! First the snow falls and engulfs you, then it melts and floods you.
Many of the comments seem not to get the whole point of the article and see some sort of “morally right” slant to the hypocrisy of Harry contracting himself out again as a figurehead of a firm. And with all that publicity too.
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If he were any good at this BetterUp ‘job’ he’d have been equipped to help his wife. If, in fact, she was ever suicidal.
Sam, there is a Grammar God up there, along with all the others: he will welcome you with open arms.
And yeah, we medievalists certainly can think of the queen as having two bodies. No problem.
What should we expect from this poor devil? Nature & Nurture within the inbred environment of the Royal family is bound to produce such wastes of space.
Look at some of the members of the Tory government. Are their words of wisdom any better?
Look at the views, principles and values of today’s younger generation. Harry doesn’t have to fake his empathy. He’s one of them!
Such misogyny! I read in the Times a few weeks ago, that the tension between William and Harry predates Meagan. Harry resented William getting all the attention when he was by far the most popular Royal. He felt that he should get more prominence and more money. Don’t blame Meaghan, I bet he gives her a hard time.
I have some sympathy for Harry. Many obviously think he should be grateful for his privilege, and keep quiet about it. But his future was at best a member of the B team in a quaint ceremonial business, dependent on his Grandma for a living now and in the long run his older brother. What self respecting individual would aspire to to that? Who wouldn’t want to strike out on their own if they had any gumption and if the opportunity presented. Ms Markle looks to be the catalyst for his new found confidence to break free. He can now only play the hand in life he was dealt- nobody can be blamed for the family they happened to be born into. Give him a break. You never know- he may actually do more good in his new roles than opening fetes and wearing fancy dress uniforms at public events would have achieved in his old one.
H & M did a great interview with Tristan Harris, former senior ethicist at Google and co-founder of Center for Humane Technology. Give the guy a break. He has a real role to play in how we assert agency in the “Attention Economy”. What happens in these next few years on that front will be critical.
I find this article mean-spirited, regardless of whether you are an award-winning journalist clever at a turn of phrase. I’m thinking of Restorative Justice training, our sheriff’s dept all go through. A key component is to practice being in someone else’s skin. That could be a core competency for journalism also.
“Who wouldn’t want to strike out on their own if they had any gumption and if the opportunity presented.”
People who strike out on their own, usually do not expect to remain on the family payroll. Harry apparently did not understand that wanting to be “financially independent” meant that he and Megs would be, well, on their own financially. Most teenagers have figured this out, much less a couple approaching middle age.
Does anybody remember the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes? I’ll just save Harry’s PR executive the trouble of penning a reply. This is pretty much the kind of response I get
Mr Leith, you need to educate yourself and go on a journey. Then you may understand the value of compassion, vulnerability and honesty. Until then, stop posting racist comments
What on earth are you talking about?
I think he’s being ironic, ( at least I hope he is ) as certainly our prince has the inside line on compassion, vulnerability etc.
Yes I am being ironic! It is the kind of patronising, BS response I get whenever I comment
A sort of Titania McGrath, then?
Yes I am being ironic! It is the kind of patronising, BS response I get whenever I comment