An unnecessary risk that doesn't need idolising

Deployment of the princes
So should the Duke of Cambridge go to Afghanistan?
I’m gonna risk The wrath of Clarence house and say NO.

The Duke has saved life in North Wales and is about to become a dad. Under any normal circumstance (even in war) he’s soon due compassionate paternity leave.

Should a potential peacemaker and trade envoy / diplomat such as him in a reassigned job after the birth of his child(ren?) attract criticism from moderate middle eastern opinion at a time when negotiation is needed
He has to be treated as a normal dad in these circumstances.
The counter argument is that Prince Harry should assist the Duke in this or follow the training of the Duke of York in this role himself as it’s a job above the civil list, said civil list may be curtailed in the future.


And while I’m blogging the Israeli election I’m gonna dare to say vote Kadima for a moderate Likud- Kadima- Labour coalition to deliver a peace agreement. The settler parties have to be listened to in the context of either dual nationality or if their territory is within the negotiated west bank Palestinian state, resettlement within Israel proper or Palestinian citizenship under a moderate constitution and democratic assembly, possibly devolved from the Palestinian state proper’s joint Gaza – West Bank legislature.