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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... seems some- times to evaporate like a gas for whole weeks at a time ) but the alternation between these two human qualities has not been much affected by a sudden and general outbreak of republics . Where once the kin of the Battenbergs ...
... seems some- times to evaporate like a gas for whole weeks at a time ) but the alternation between these two human qualities has not been much affected by a sudden and general outbreak of republics . Where once the kin of the Battenbergs ...
Síða 21
... seems never to have abandoned his conviction that Hitler had a point . Had things gone the other way , he was a candidate for providing stability and continuity to a foreign- imposed régime of quite a different sort . 2. Glamour and ...
... seems never to have abandoned his conviction that Hitler had a point . Had things gone the other way , he was a candidate for providing stability and continuity to a foreign- imposed régime of quite a different sort . 2. Glamour and ...
Síða 38
... seems not to have realised what he was borrowing from Locke in the following stanza written for the Queen Mum's birthday in 1985 : It was an eerie vision ! The Land of the Lion ! Each clear creature , crystal - bright , Honey - lit with ...
... seems not to have realised what he was borrowing from Locke in the following stanza written for the Queen Mum's birthday in 1985 : It was an eerie vision ! The Land of the Lion ! Each clear creature , crystal - bright , Honey - lit with ...
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The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish Christopher Hitchens Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2012 |
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