The people’s prince
IT IS not permitted to criticise the prime minister. No law decrees this; no phones are tapped, and no publications banned; yet self-censorship achieves a near-unanimity which would be the envy of many a totalitarian regime. It is not permitted to criticise the prime minister.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The people’s prince”
From the September 13th 1997 edition
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