Poor MOD PR folk what do you do? Alas the news has broken  that Prince Harry has been doing his duty for this Grandmother and shooting at the Taliban on the front line in Afghanistan. A huge pat on the back – the young man is certainly courageous.  Supposedly, Matt Drudge has broken the media blackout. The head of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff Sir Richard Dannatt mused  “I am very disappointed that foreign websites have decided to run this story without consulting us.”  I am an old PR cynic and experience suggests that it was someone in the UK media who leaked it to the US site. It was too tempting not to be able to  freely  report the story before the fighting Prince is packed off home. The acres of ink spilled this weekend on the subject is certainly going to push up  circulation  of the weekend papers.

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