The Duke of Edinburgh lying on the floor with a torch in his teeth...

It's quite a vision. Some classic stuff and a fascinating insight into the mundane side of royal life from Prince Philip on the anniversary of the Design Council. I put him in the same category of Boris Johnson. The nation would be a duller place without him.

The Duke of Edinburgh has attacked the complexity of television sets and remote controls, giving a rare glimpse of life inside the Windsor household.
Prince Philip said the quality of design had in some areas declined, and he picked televisions as an example.
Harking back to an age when televisions were simple, he said: "To work out how to operate a TV set you practically have to make love to the thing."
You had to lie on the floor with a torch and magnifying glass, he said.
..."They put the [TV] controls on the bottom so you had to lie on the floor, and then if you wanted to record something the recorder was underneath, so you ended up lying on the floor with a torch in your teeth, a magnifying glass and an instruction book.
"Either that or you had to employ a grandson of age 10 to do it for you."
He added: "And why can't you have a handset that people who are not 10 years old can actually read?"