The extent to which [radicalisation] is happening is … alarming … And
particularly in a country like ours where you know the values we hold dear. You
think that the people who have come here, born here, go to school here, would
imbibe those values and outlooks.
- Prince Charles in a BBC interview last month
- Prince Charles in a BBC interview last month
We have a sarcastic riposte in Dutch when someone indicates that s/he has
finally twigged to something already widely known – “the child is waking up”.
It seems a highly appropriate rejoinder to the prince’s naïve utterances so
I’ll just call him ‘Charlie’ from here on.
