'Workshy' Wills is getting flak – I hear Russia's in need of cosmonauts | John Crace

From prince being under fire for having no proper job to George Osborne fitting yet another job in with his MP's duties

Prince William is getting a lot of flak for going on a lads' ski trip to Verbier, though the headlines of "Don't you have a proper job to go to?" appear to have been mainly an excuse for newspapers to print pictures of the prince drinking and dancing in nightclubs. Not least because the simple fact is that he doesn't have a proper job to go to. That's the whole point of him. Most of us encounter a sense of existential futility at some point, but few have it embedded in our job description. He's basically twiddling his thumbs waiting for his granny and his father to die. It's almost enough to make a member of the royal family turn republican.