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Charles Windsor needs to hear dissenting voices – and so does Gordon Brown | Michael White

Source: guardian.co.uk Politics

Nov 06, 2009

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Neither the PM nor the future king are good at letting people tell them what they don't want to hear

The most telling anecdote I encountered this week was tucked away in a newspaper feature about Prince Charles, or President-elect Glücksburg, as republican readers may prefer to think of him. There was a lesson in the story for all of us, including you, Gordon.

What happened was this. The Times was reporting grave doubts in Scotland about the tie-up between the prince's architectural charity, the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, and a local family builder, Scotia Homes, in support of the firm's plans to build homes – lots of them – in small communities that don't all want them.

The road to John o' Groats is paved with good intentions and both sides impugn each other's motives. That's not my anecdote. A sidebar article by Valentine Low explains the ongoing "carbuncle" battle between the prince and most of the architectural profession. On modernism the public is on our side, explains a prince-ite.

Well, so am I sometimes, though I fear Charlie Windsor

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