It’s time for another episode of ‘The Objectively Game’. For those of you not familiar with the rules… well I guess you’re not a Republican. The idea is to take some tangential element of an event, subtly (or not) twist it, then point out that your target is objectively pro-{something you don’t like}.

This time we look at the news that Prince Harry is serving in Afghanistan, although now he isn’t because the news has been leaked. The story had been kept secret for 10 weeks by the media to allow the Prince to serve without endangering himself or his soldiers (except in the normal sense of being in a war zone, of course). Now I’m not generally in favour of ‘nod and a wink’ agreements between the press and, well, pretty much anyone, but in this case you’ve got a young man wanting to do something honourable with a minimum of fuss, so I don’t see the harm.

Here’s where the game starts. Not only do I not see the harm, but it’s actually a good thing because it shares the risk of being in Afghanistan across one more person. Exposing the news, therefore, deprives the Army of the use of one officer, an exhaustible (in both senses) resource. And so, by revealing the news The Drudge Report* has weakened our Army, proving that it/he is objectively pro-Al Qaida.

(*Not that Drudge was in any way bound by the voluntary agreement, except perhaps by common decency)