The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108674   Message #2265036
Posted By: Richard Bridge
17-Feb-08 - 09:55 PM
Thread Name: E Carthy/S Lakeman on Englishness
Subject: RE: E Carthy/S Lakeman on Englishness
Al, folksinging and folksong singing are not jobs, they are callings. And at times Prince Charles seems to have a good handle on some of the things that the English fear and for which the English hope - his enunciation of the fear that brutalist architecture evokes, and realisation that communities need t obe mixed and to the human scale goes way beyond the appreciation of most town planners, for example. At other times he makes the same mistakes as many men when (like McCartney) he fails to spot that a simper hides a honey badger.