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] Date Posted: 20:45:11 12/29/04 Wed In reply to: Dave (UK) 's message, "Bravo" on 19:47:40 12/29/04 Wed "Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution -- perhaps the first modern political institution." (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, September 29th 1997) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (IOM) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:07:16 01/03/05 Mon ...unlike Britain, of course, where a systematic attempt is underway to pretend that the monarhy doesn't exist: getting rid of the prefix 'HMP', for example, and the phrase "At Her Majesty's Pleasure", the removal of royal potraits in case they are considered "divisive", and other such nonsense. Let's all go down to Canada House in Trafalgar Sq (shortly, no doubt, to be renamed Austerlitz Square or Marengo Square, with Ken Livingstone on the currently empty fourth plinth) and try to convince the blighters that we'd make model citizens. Oh Canada, etc. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |