The folly of patriotic purchasing
13 September 2012
Prince Charles’s call for the public sector to ‘buy British’ seems reasonable. But, writes David Arminas, it’s not quite that simple
Prince Charles has never been one for pulling his punches in public and this time the purchasing profession is in his sights, whether he knows it or not.
In a previous soundbite, the prince had a go at architects. In a speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1984, he called a proposed extension to London’s National Gallery “a monstrous carbuncle...