When a once sharp mind becomes a loudspeaker for recycled talking points.

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Let’s talk about Tina Brown, a once a sharp media mind, now a loudspeaker for recycled royal talking points. Every time she opens her mouth about Harry and Meghan, you can practically hear the mothballs. The New York Times gave her the mic for The Interview, and she used it to broadcast the same tired narrative: Meghan is a failure, Harry is dumb, and the monarchy is the centre of the universe. It’s like she’s stuck in 1989, desperately trying to shape a story that the public stopped buying a long time ago.

She calls the Sussexes “pariahs,” which is a bold thing to say about two people who are literally in rooms she’ll never get invited to again. They’re being photographed with Oprah, Kris Jenner, Bezos, top CEOs, world class creatives but somehow they’re “pariahs”? Come on. Tina isn’t reporting, she’s projecting. And what she’s projecting most loudly is resentment.

There’s something almost retro about her analysis, as if Meghan should apologise for not staying in her lane, curtsying on cue, or letting the UK tabloids dictate her life choices. Tina frames Meghan as professionally incompetent while conveniently ignoring that Meghan built a career, a network, and a philanthropic footprint long before she married Harry. Tina wants to believe that Meghan is lost without palace handlers. But the receipts say otherwise, and her bitterness just sounds like someone who got left out of the group chat.