Is it time to abolish the monarchy - Recorded live at the Cambridge literary Festival
Daily Politics from the New Statesman
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The British Crown and the Politics of Freedom
Britain loosely claims at least four home nations, but the term British can encompass Indians, Ghanaians and Singaporeans. We tend to favour that term because it shows we don't have to be English as we would have to in a potential English republic. Mere loyalty to whom makes us all British is the organising principle. Our oath of allegiance is to Charles III, his heirs and successors. That's it. Just to some random, weird, ultimately powerless, symbolically significant family. My mother wears a hijab, doesn't speak much English, loved the queen. She's unimpeachably British in a way that is impossible in any comparable European republic. For those who are here as the
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