He’s the icon of every disaffected youth of the nation, so it’s rewarding to see Prince Charles being promoted as a true political rebel. With his crazy wish for a utopia where radishes have equal rights with pop stars, cabbages with kings, Charles is proving to be one of the most profound political thinkers of his generation. Popularising an essentially anti-aesthetic movement to match anything thought up on the continent, Charles has long-since abandoned traditional notions of ‘beauty’, so famously characterised by Princess Diana, and has instead tried to promote something less — how shall we say – conventional. Yet like all radicals, he sometimes misses the mark. Denouncing the lovely Chinese government is just the latest in a long line of gaffes, for as every UK business, university, and government minister knows, China is the new Saudi Arabia. If only he had checked his facts on Google, Prince Charles would know that China has a human rights record cuddlier than anything recorded by Sir Cliff Richard.

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