Magazine Esquire nominates Prince Charles world's best dressed man

Astoundingly, a well-known magazine - one highly respected even - has said something good about Prince Charles...no, wait, they've said something really good about him. Instead of the usual mockery, ridicule, and lies about the British prince that we've come to expect from the cowardly types that use their media position to attack and discredit an individual whose circumstances do not allow him to respond, the fashion editor of Esquire says that Prince Charles is the world's best dressed man.

I did a quick search around Australian cyberspace to gauge media reaction, expecting a whole lot of sneering - inevitably with reference to the campaign for a republic in Australia. I was surprised to find in my brief search no negative media comment for the most part, just the reporting without commentary. Remarkably self-restrained. Except for The Age. Naturally.

What do you expect from the childish PC minds that daily regale their constituency with a good dose of PC ideology, sanctimony and hypocrisy? They could not resist accompanying their report with a not very subtle photo from their vast library of unflattering photos of the British royal family.

For those who are not abreast of Australian politics, a major objective of the PC agenda is to force us all to be republicans. Now a change to Australia's present political structure involves a radical constitutional intervention fraught with unforseen consequences. This is quite apart from considering the powerful arguments that can be marshalled to defend the present constitutional arrangements. But instead of addressing the constitutional, cultural and philosophical arguments for maintaining Australia's present arrangements, we get the silliest arguments mindlessly regurgitated through the mainstream media. They are twofold:

1. The argument from ridicule: the British Royal family is made of up ridiculous figures, especially Prince Charles, and therefore Australia must become a republic. This is the preferred argument of the Fairfax Group, which has The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald standing knee high in the dung in its stables.

2. Australia should be mature enough to throw off the overlordship of the British monarchy.

The logical problem of the first argument should be obvious. The second is based on false premises. Lack of logic and falsehood is, as we know, no obstacle for the PC media determined to advance their political agenda. Melbourne's Age shines in this respect - especially with its selection of dopey feminist commentators. Let's not forget the boys and girls of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation who use a multi-million-dollar taxpayer grant to spread PC propaganda. As a general illustration of what I mean, I found the following comment on an ABC message board with the following Orwellian title: Q&A: Adventures in Democracy:

If Prince Charles is the World's Best dressed man, then surely its time for an Australian Republic!

Also a member of The Age's constituency, no doubt. The ABC and The Age have more or less the same constituency. The difference is that between sherry and Cabernet Sauvignon.

Comment: gerard@gerardcharleswilson.com