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Is Prince Harry’s apology enough?

It’s more than enough. I don’t even think he should have had to apologise. A word by itself is not racist, it is the intent behind the use of that word. Anybody who isn’t a complete and utter numbskull or a closet republican looking to make hay can see that that there was no racist intent behind what Prince Harry said.

Move on.
Ian Darke, London

I love Ian’s quaint idea that there are “closet republicans”. I expect they meet once a month, at a clandestine location, to discuss their shameful secret. They only get an hour because the closet marmalade-lovers need the room at 7pm.

A wise old Druze Arab once said to me…. If The Palestinians would put down their weapons there would be no war. If the Israelis put down their weapons there would be no Israel. Israel should defend itself and its citizens with every means at their disposal. ‘Disproportiantiate’ force is absolute rubbish. If you attack a tiger, would you expect the tiger to fight back with its claws or its tail???
ben, London

Hmmm. I’m going to guess.. umm… “laser guided bombs”?

Here’s one for you. If you lived next door to a mad tiger who kept raping you and then exploding, and he said “I’ll stop as soon as you stop those pigeons from shitting on my car”, would you not expect the tiger to rape you and explode as humanely as possible? I mean, the least it could do is let a doctor come and tend to your poor ravaged twinkle before raping you and exploding again. You could have a couple of hours off every afternoon while it explained to a BBC journalist about how it’s doing the bare minimum of raping. I mean, it could be raping you a lot more. Like in the eye or something. If it was, you know, really vindictive or something. Good old tiger.

Iran and Syria are laughing at the world and so impressed with the liberal media and Hamas fighting their battle for them. Liberals and the liberal media are happy to insure the obliteration of Israel and the rise of Hamas and terror in the world. Wait till Hamas comes to your neighborhood, but don’t cry for hep.
Hal Weyant, Huntington Beach, United States

First they came for the Jews. But these particular Jews lived in Israel and had a load of American weapons which they used to bombed the fuck out of Hamas and anyone else who looked a bit Palestinian. Then they tried to come for the Jews again. But the Jews still had those F-16s and bombed the fuck out of them again. Then when Hamas came for me, it wasn’t so bad cos they didn’t have any limbs or eyes left, and I escaped.

Haven’t dared look in the Israel/Gaza thread yet. I don’t want to. Please don’t make me.

On a cheerier note, a quick dip into “What do you think of the new Time Lord?” revealed this staunch defender of democracy. This wasn’t his only post in the thread either. He posted at least three times. One was glad that they didn’t “ruin Doctor Who” by selecting a black man to play him. Another pointed out that nobody should be posting in the thread because nobody knows what what the new chap will be like yet (apart from being better than a black man).

If the BBC already knows who the next Doctor is going to be, then why is the wasting valuable HYS space asking, “Who should be the next Doctor?”

This question was asked some months ago, and the vast, vast majority of people answered, “Russell Brand.”

Why is the BBC asking the same question again? Has the BBC totally ignored the answer given originally?

This sounds like our present government’s idea of democracy. Keep asking until the answer is correct.
I reject political correctness, because it’s oppressive

I don’t know whether to be annoyed that you’re alive or relieved that you’ve wasted your entire life.