Good one Teribus, esp. your remarks about the 'delights' of elected Presidents. If we'd had a Republic here in Australia a few years ago our President would certainly have been one Pauline Hanson, a fish and chip shop owner whose revoltingly racist, anti-Asian and anti-Aboriginal views were wildly popular. Since then she has thankfully and deservedly gone down the tube, a classic 9 day's wonder - but with a Republic she could have been installed as President to our lasting humiliation.

I'm pissed off with all these people who think that Prince Charles has no brains. A brief read of his books on architecture and organic farming show him to be intelligent, articulate, sensitve and thoughtful.