matter what lay behind the appearance, if anything. His job would be reassurance, empathy and schmoozing. He should be able to massage Congressional committees, and everyone else. So there is an obvious candidate, with few other commitments at the moment: Tony Blair. The Prince is right about our cities In a cynical age, the Prince of Wales can be at a disadvantage. He is always earnest, often painfully so. But he is often right and never more so than on architecture. In his letter to the Qataris expressing opposition to their Chelsea development, the Prince referred to the squares and terraces which are among the glories of the finest British cities. Bath, the New Town in Edinburgh, the surviving portions of Bloomsbury: that is how urban man ought to live. The le Corbusier school would like to replace them with tower blocks, which brutalise the eye -- and their inhabitants. What passes for modern architecture has exacerbated post-war social problems. So we should applaud the Prince's attempts to protect our cities from further despoilment.