"When I hear the word “holistic” I reach for my BAR and don’t worry about the safety." Regular Samizdata commenter NickM, over at his CountingCats redoubt. He's talking about Prince Charles. Of course, if Charles wants to revert to an age of Divine Right, witchburnings, absence of notions of individual rights, logic, science and so forth, then maybe he should rem...

Prince Charles talks some right batshit horsecock sometimes. Counting Cats fisks it. Really, there's little more to add, except possibly... vivat Regina.

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Here are some of the posts made over the past week on Spectator.co.uk: Fraser Nelson has a new addition to his family, and invites you to meet Farmer Mandelson. James Forsyth says that the Tories need an attack dog, and questions whether Prince Charles should be getting involved in the Copenhagen debate. Peter Hoskin stresses that the Tories should resist any temptation to go soft on debt, and obs...

The Prince of Wales has again been accused of meddling in Government policy.

I’m of the view that climate change is happening and that the evidence suggests that man’s actions are playing a significant role in this. I’m even in favour of a carbon tax to deal with the problem. But I’ll admit that this is a political issue as well as a scientific, and one that will become more politicised in the years to come. All of which makes me wonder if it is wis...

From the UK's Daily Mail comes a story that gives weight to the long standing rumor that Queen Elizabeth has decided to dump Prince Charles in favor of the next generation, with Prince William taking on a number of her public duties and becoming Britain's 'shadow King': The Queen is to hand over a substantial part of her public duties to Prince William to help him prepare for t...

It's not enough to be rich and famous if you're not somehow "relevant". Whether it's Prince Charles or Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio or any of these other guys, they all have the same message: "Hey, I deserve to live like this. Now shut up and shiver in the dark, you peasants". - Simon Scowl...

Today in Times comment Antonia Senior: But how on earth did she get the insurance? Hugo Rifkind: Protesting against Prince Charles? Bonkers Nick Clegg: One last chance to save our Afghan mission Frank Skinner: It’ll be tough for bankers on...

Edzard Ernstthe professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsula Medical School at Exeter may have accused him of promoting "quackery" with some of the products in his Duchy Originals range but the Prince of Wales's messianic fervour for alternative ways of treating illness and ailments clearly remains undiminshed.