Category Archives: Monarchy

Happy Birthday Magna Carta

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Today is the 796th anniversary of the first great charter – the magna carta of 1215. Now some people think that it’s pretty much a busted flush these days, having been all but entirely repealed. Others seem to think that it’s irrelevant because we’re now a parliamentary democracy though the evidence suggests that despite them changing our passports to say “citizen” rather than “subject”* we are still actually a constitutional monarchy. Just because parliament acts like it’s supreme (and sadly the monarchy lets it) doesn’t make it so, just as just because parliament would like us to think they can … Continue reading →

The rule of law

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Hat tip to the good Captain Ranty for the following two videos. This is a very interesting development by The Runnymede Institute to address the constitutional fuck up that the last couple of Governments have made by tinkering badly with how parliament and the union are formed. The Videos cover their cahllenge to the illegal (or possibly unlawful) reformation of the house of Lords, do spend the 10 minutes it takes to watch the videos, they’re really terribly enlightening: The likelihood of them succeeding is I fear very low, because of the law is actually upheld then an awful lot … Continue reading →

Tales from a wedding

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So the wedding is over and rather pleasantly quietly it would seem – but then I’ve not been near a paper or a pub with a TV, so what would I know. Reading comments on other peoples blogs it seems to have been quite a mixed bag of a wedding, from what it tells us about the state of the nation. Given we are still a monarchy (even if there is debate as to how much power/relevance the monarchy has) how people, both the people and the powers that be, react to it is rather interesting. Lets start with the … Continue reading →