I find a significant amount to disagree with in this. Other countries have honours systems, including those that are republics. The economic situation in the country is not down to the monarchy but t… (View Post)

He won’t be anywhere near as popular as his mother. But he doesn’t have to be. The key thing about changing a political system is there has to be an active will to put in place an alternative. For so… (View Post)

It is the modern way of keeping up with the Jones’. Instead of that nice new car or holiday or kitchen that people would want to bore their neighbour about it’s that Instagram story or post that show… (View Post)

It strikes me that this fails to acknowledge the change in the monarchy that has been ongoing for some time. It has become less about deference and more about service. And it has also, in typical Bri… (View Post)

Quite. I think it is somewhat lazy to characterise a post-QEII UK as somehow inevitably dwindling, permanently diminished. For one thing it puts way too much emphasis on just how critical QEII has be… (View Post)