The MonarchyChatto & Windus, 1990 - 42 síður Part of a series, this book submits a proposal for the admission of republican principles into the national debate. The author examines the Royals as a national fetish that encourages servile but also snobbish attitudes. He calls for constitutional and political reform. |
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... Windsor cult . Does the unruffled , unquestioning fealty to monarchy mean that we cannot look our own history in the face ? The obsequious concealment of the plaque , and the dishonest omission of the origins of the Irish crisis , took ...
... Windsor cult . Does the unruffled , unquestioning fealty to monarchy mean that we cannot look our own history in the face ? The obsequious concealment of the plaque , and the dishonest omission of the origins of the Irish crisis , took ...
Síða 16
... Windsor ' with its reassuring echo , and generally taking the active interest in social peace that has licensed more than one of its interventions into politics . From this very ancestry , of course , descends the present idiom of royal ...
... Windsor ' with its reassuring echo , and generally taking the active interest in social peace that has licensed more than one of its interventions into politics . From this very ancestry , of course , descends the present idiom of royal ...
Síða 23
... Windsor and putative Nazi collaborator , recalled in his own memoirs , he was compelled to be attended by a tailor , who had been commissioned to make : ' a fantastic costume designed for the occasion , consisting of white satin ...
... Windsor and putative Nazi collaborator , recalled in his own memoirs , he was compelled to be attended by a tailor , who had been commissioned to make : ' a fantastic costume designed for the occasion , consisting of white satin ...
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The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish Christopher Hitchens Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2012 |
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