On last night's Newsnight, someone from the architectural nomenklatura tried to claim that London had a "global responsibility" to build the Richard Rogers design scuppered by Prince Charles. She did not know it, but she expressed beautifully one of the strongest arguments for having a monarchy, and a meaningful, activist monarchy at that. Though also for having proper political parties again. Among very many other things.
She and hers had better get used to things are they now are: if Prince Charles does not want something built, then it simply will not be, and that is that. The person who occupies that position in the national life, impervious to the bribery and bullying that can see off anyone else who dares speak for the little people in these matters, need not necessarily hold any formal position, still less be the monarch or the Heir to the Throne. But it is more than appropriate that he should be.
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