Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 6

Ti' (ji- rf' -'oi -rf i --V i THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD SSSL 6 WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL 1987 i I Princely glove is not picked up never doubted that our future Charles III George VII Arthur or whatever name he goes for a courageous chap So I think we should applaud his latest victory He has just thrown down the gauntlet again to the carbuncle builders of RIBA and (out of fear? weakness?) refused to pick it up He got his chance when a group which wants to demonstrate achitecture the Society (no relation) asked the Prince to open a back to October Then the motion was wrong and must be softened (All this despite prior agreement) It was only after much headbanging that the debate emerged with a chance of survival Admitting that it is hard to be cavalier with the royal diary RIBA agreed to the prearranged date And the Londoners agreed to a change of motion now a stodge pudding of a subject: can communication between architects and the public be best The chairman of the Society Lady Wynne-Jones tells me diplomatically that been though she is very glad that the debate is still going ahead than a yah-boo punch up we mutually agreed to keep it This is the line that RIBA takes as well know if wise to be cockahoop about a cockatoo called Cocky but the owners of the Aviary petshop In Tachbrook Street are Just that Cocky pecks coins from hands and puts them in a bucket to charity He likes 50 pence bits and can mun four at a time Into his beak Pound coins he loaths been known to fling them back in his teeth Up a gum tree NO one seems to have noticed the junior minister John Have we got Ramsay MacDonald yet? Lady Wynne-Jones debate blunted public debate with RIBA over the motion: house believes that architecture is too important to be left to A date was set for May 20 and happily he was game But as soon as the Royal Institute of British Architects heard all sorts of weird and wonderful objections to the whole plan began to emerge First of all the date was wrong (there was a RIBA council meeting) and must be put Selwyn prolonged absence from the House of Commons but the poor chap has been flat on his back all week with his neck in a collar The deposed Tory party chairman and pillar of the church carried his injury with saintly stoicism for some time before he retired to his bed Surrounded by his young frunily he tells me cheerfully that he is already feeling better and should be right as rain shortly When I asked if his injury would disqualify him from the election run-up he said he did not know if there was going to one yet Perhaps someone should tell the dear fellow Bunter bounced THE Labour self-appointed spokesman on Peter Wright Dale Campbell-Savours tells me that he intends within the next three to reveal another key conspirator in the plot to overthrow Mr Wilson There is another man who between 1974 and 1976 was a lecturer to army units on subversion in the Trade Unions and he lectured them along with others including tome people from the Economic he says mysteriously I hope that Campbell-Savours has more luck with his second name than he was refused a British passport last year because he take the oath of allegiance (his friend and occasional washer-upper Prince Charles pleaded it was not so bad all I had to take it is now planning a lengthy trip down under and friends are Worried he may never come back Milligan regularly plagued by manic depression only recently complained that he was being treated like a leper by the BBC But the comedian is very popular amongst the Antipideons and has some family allegiance to them His mother recently became a naturalised Australian and his daughter Laura is expecting her first child out The weather is also a temptation Milligan was brought up in India and has always been depressed by the British drizzle Although his friend and biographer Pauline Scudamore insists he will return 69-year-old trip bears all the marks of a final voyage He plans to set sail shortly (for he is terrified of flying) and the women and children (ie his wife Shelagh) will follow Spreading interest OUR Parliamentarians seem determined to drown us in talk about the dread subject Yet another cross party AIDS committee has been formed I appears to have had with his first His announcement on Monday that one of the leading plotters was a Mr Harry is causing merriment among some of our senior spywatchers I wonder whether he even says author and former MI6 man Harford Montgomery Ilyde And Richard Deacon author of a history of the British secret services suspects that he may exist but not in the flesh Harry Wharton is a character in the Grey friars Annual along with Billy Bunter and Jam Jam he tells me THE Emperor of Japan Is celebrating his birthday today and thousands of his countrymen will feel appropriate to say a prayer for his continued happiness Normally in the land of tea ceremonies you pay around £90 to a middleman who goes to the shrine for you But the Shinto shrine In Dazalfo has Installed a fax machine This is for cheaper (£13) and apparently the gods do not object to the missing personal touch voyage ARE WE to lose one of our only funny comedians to Australia? Spike Milligan who an addition to the group of Ministers chaired by Willie Whitelaw and the Commons Select Committee already travelling in its quest for enlightenment Scrupulously non-party to be chaired by the SDP whip Lord Kilmarnock and its three vice chairmen are Tory Piers Merchant Liberal Archie Kirkwood and Chris Smith the Labour member for Islington South the only MP to admit that homosexual Kilmarnock tells me he expects a massive turnout of interested MPs and peers for the meetings After all the issue of the Kilmarnock incidentally shares a house with the OAP and novelist Kingsley his first third husband so expect an HLV sub-plot in next book APART from the Emperor of Japan Jeremy Thorpe has birthday today He is 58 Interviewed on the wireless by Chris Wilson he says not an admirer of the British press: those gossip columns are simply I think the lowest form of Clearly Jeremy will never be an emperor He will not even be a diplomat Poor Wilson not so very long ago was hlmsei none other than William Hick ey resident gossip on the Express Cut the cost of your Mortgage by OVER 25 I Anew approach to mortateaia now oflarad by BenrinLaRocha which enables you to reduce tha coat of your mortgafa by over 2S In the tint year The scheme aleogiiw you the flexibility to lncrwac or decree permute co your drcnwwtanree dictate The ecmocomneUtlw utarat rate appUea whether you bnnwv OSJMO or SSSOjOOO and because of the hih Income multiplea that an offered you can buy that Meal house sooner minimum) 1 s- A (K I V-r i -t 4 The scheme applies to both NEW RE-MORTGAGES MORTGAGES and Interested? 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