Why are people so insistent that it was a drunk driver OR the paparazzi that killed Diana? It was a combination of both. They wouldn’t have had to change plans so often or tried to outsmart the paps by leaving from the back of the Ritz and driving ridiculously fast if they weren’t being hounded across Paris in the first place. AND their chauffeur was over the limit and not able to make good judgements.
There’s always potential for danger when a lot of vehicles are chasing a target vehicle, instead of just driving along a street and attending to the road. Surely people can understand that?
And the defensiveness and small-mindedness of pps on here bleating “well it wasn’t the British paparazzi” who chased Diana, well no it wasn’t, but British people, along with many other nationalities, were responsible for buying tabloid newspapers, which created the market for photographs in the first place. It was well documented at the time that sales of a newspaper doubled if a photo of Diana was on the cover.
H & M were not saying that all of the British public are racist either. They said how welcomed they felt by the public but that the press attention started to get too intrusive bordering on dangerous. For example Meghan was sent white powder in an envelope and received a death threat. Wouldn’t you want your wife and dc out of there in that situation?
Everyone needs to read a copy of the Leveson enquiry Part One in to dubious press practices and be aware that the then culture secretary, the “lovely” Matt Hancock shelved the commissioning of Part Two in 2018, and not a lot relating to press standards has changed or improved since then.
It’s really a disgrace that powerful tabloids can write virtually anything they like about anyone, it doesn’t have to have even the mildest basis in truth, and very few people can afford to take them to court over it.
But apparently everyone hoovers up the racist and misogynistic bile that the Daily Mail and other red tops put out there every day, and no one gives a shit! I think H & M were responding to that rather than accusing the British public directly of racism. But it’s impossible to totally ignore the question : if we read the Daily Mail does that make us racist and misogynistic too?