When free speech is the unbearable pea, protected, as it once was, by layer upon layer of universal education, and the years of peace and stability afforded by some of the greatest liberal democratic institutions in the history of the world, there is a problem. The princesses have lost their collective minds

Unlike the infamously naked emperor, who had the decency to blush when his subjects noted his nudity, the national broadcaster prefers to heed the chorus of its bought-and-paid-for courtiers. "Be not ashamed," they bleat,"you are pure, innocent and magnificently attired"