Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have significantly upped the stakes in the competition for The World’s Most Annoying Couple™. The “privacy-seeking” ex-royals have bared their souls in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Their grievances are many. In Spectator UK, Melanie McDonagh casts a gimlet eye over their incendiary accusations.

The Frigid Isle
Íris Erlingsdóttir shines a light on the world’s first wholly feminized state. Women, she writes in The European Conservative, run everything in Iceland: “the presidency, the prime minister’s office…[the] national state church…schools, municipalities, police…newsrooms and [the] ever-expanding public bureaucracy.” As for the men, Erlingsdóttir observes, they describe themselves ruefully as (bad-taste alert) “pussy-whipped.”


