Steve ~~ I think there is a difference between bishops using their position to make political points which are not faith-related, and Prince Charles giving his opinion [which he never claims to authoritative, or more than just a personal opinion] on certain trends in modern public architecture [note that 'public'] which he finds uncongenial - as do many people for whom he is thus a spokesman. It is not as if he had, or claimed, any authority to forbid it; but he does seem to me to have been effective in modifying the more 'brutalist' trends which many people regretted seeing take over so much of previously attractive cityscapes.

"Nope.Free speech isn't free speech if it is in any way curtailed." One of those questionable 'progressive' shibboleths. Is it OK to shout 'Fire' in a crowded theatre? Or what do you think, Paddy Dzell, of the provisions against prejudiced statements aimed at stirring up racial hatreds in the various Race Relations Acts; whose invariable support by those in general most opposed to any sort of censorship in any other context has always struck me as one of the great paradoxes...


~M~