Is it time to abolish the monarchy - Recorded live at the Cambridge literary Festival
Politics from the New Statesman
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The Truth About Monarchy
I'd like to take a sort of health and safety person role and talk about what it does to them. It's not a very comfortable place to be, I think, a deity in an age of mass media. They are expensive to conserve and ill-adapted to any modern environment. When considering royals to count the victims of monarchy is easier than to count those who are made happy by it. Our paraphrase Oscar Wilde now, one unhappy royal is an accident to his carelessness. And we have generation to generation, a tapestry of ruined lives. Veneration does terrible things to people. The way we talk about monarchical discourse,. empty of content, mou
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