Samara Gill

Bashar al-Assad is gone. After years of war, sanctions, and relentless Western efforts to isolate him, the man who weathered more than a decade of rebellion and international ostracism has been toppled. His departure is celebrated in some quarters as the long-overdue end of a tyrant.

Oh, here we go again. Harry and Meghan, the couple who fled the stiff corridors of Buckingham Palace for a sun-drenched life of freedom and philanthropy, have found themselves in yet another sticky situation. This time, it’s all about money—specifically, the $6 million their Archewell Foundation reportedly pocketed from Fidelity Charitable, an organisation that’s, shall we say, not winning any awards for ethics.