ABSTRACT
The documentation of the radical phenomenon in the contemporary culture can be illustrated by cohering fragments of a choice newspaper. In Matthew Norman's Diary the stabbing insights of the day range from gossip and innuendo to arch-irony and near-libel. In these days the antics of the Royal Family have been providing easy targets, especially the japes of the younger members; and the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II appears to the most vulnerable of all. The Guardian made one of its famous errors by referring to Prince Edward as a Count, mistakenly; and its Diarist hastened to add his own sense of distress to the correction. As Norman writes, it is all well and good being marauding republicans, but one must never be sloppy about titles. A bull's-eye strike where more ambitious attempts to subvert monarchy–as to protect and advance the ideas and ideals of the avant-garde–seen to have faltered. Who is there to say, that the guard had failed?.
