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Good news - Dick Madeley's back in action. Don't forget to pop over and say hello.
Meanwhile BBC 1 showed a lot of the Prince of Wales last night. Like most, I used to pour a fair bit of scorn on Charles and his unstoppable flow of opinions and Trusts, but over the years the scorn has waned and been replaced by a good deal of admiration. A remarkable man in a remarkable situation, who inspired this masterpiece of maudlin melancholia not written, needless to say, by Andrew Motion. Poet Laureate? Pull the other one...
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Well I watched the Prince of Wales too and was irritated, bemused and charmed by turns. Charmed by his inability to to find the right Wagner music on his CD, bemused by his jackdaw attention span when speaking to various worthies and irritated by the undeveloped exposition of his theories on life, the universe and everything. Liked his gardens though. Only then I realised I'd missed Spurs beating the Scousers 4-2 and kicked myself.
ReplyDeleteDangerous combination of arrogance (stoked by endless deference), massive insecurity and half-baked thought. God save the Queen, I say!
ReplyDeleteand his unstoppable flow of opinions and Trusts,
ReplyDeleteThat's a keeper, Brit. I recall reading that when he announced to his parents he was a vegetarian, HM screwed up her face and said: "Oh, do grow up."
Send him to the shire, there he would find true happiness, and be out of our hair.
ReplyDeletePresident Boris anyone?
Could someone help me out here..What is the point of Prince Charles and the Monarchy?
ReplyDeleteThose are two very different questions, Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteThe point of the Monarchy is that otherwise we'd be America or possibly even France.
The ultimate point of Prince Charles is to be the Monarch, but what his point is in the meantime is a problem that haunts his every waking moment.
What is the enduring 'appeal' of the monarchy? That it endures. Nothing, not Parliament, clearly not political philosophy, not even the predominant religion (which only secured its place with the conversion of King Ethelbert in 597) predates our monarchy. The monarchy incarnates the past, present and future of Britain. It is a beautiful part of a shifting world. That is why it remains popular.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the point of republicanism (with a small 'r')? Slovenia is a republic. Slovakia is a republic. Serbia is a republic. Mexico is a republic. Venezuela is a republic. Turkmenistan is a republic. Whoop-de-doo.
ReplyDeleteBanana is a republic. And they have great sales at the end of every season, too.
ReplyDeleteThe case for monarchy is the same as Churchill's case for democracy. Awful, but so much better than the alternatives. Long may she reign and confound her enemies!
ReplyDeleteI think Charles is permanently stoned.
ReplyDeleteWho was it who said that in the future there would only be five kings - the King of England, and the Kings of Diamonds, Clubs, Spades and Hearts?
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