How the establishment works

A story from Private Eye: some weeks ago,. Christopher Booker was in town to write jokes. Not the Sunday Telegraph column: the deliberately funny ones — in this case a Sylvie Krin story about the Royal Nuptials. At lunchtime, he snuck off, being very cagy about where he was to have lunch. Since this was Private Eye, they found out anyway, by bribing the cab driver or something — and Booker had, of course, gone off to lunch with the Prince and his friend, Mrs Parker Bowles, at their palace. Hello!