Interestingly I read that the late Nick Drake was a member of Princess Margaret's 'set'. I seem to remember Ian Campbell having some nice words to say about her - and Ian is or was a communist.

She can't have been as bad as that.

But the niceness is irrelevant. the royalty stuff gives the red light for all sorts of people to think they're summat special. Its a sort of gold standard of inequality that every jumped up little git in England aspires to.

Take this business of Harry calling one of the men under his command 'my little paki friend'. The guy can't object. If you'd done that as a teacher Mike, it would be instant dismissal. Or if a policeman had done it. Any other public servant in fact. That establishes inequality.


somehow it doesn't fit in England 2012.