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 Alternative American Class System
British class system is enshrined at the very top of our state architecture. In America, you can talk about those East Coast elites but they are not actually born president. An American child can walk around with a t-shirt that would make any sense in Britain except for one single family. I think that the thing on America has a load of money swimming around this political system. Of course it does. But my argument isn't for America. My argument is against enshrining the British class system as the head of state. It's an entirely different thing. Just because I think that this is wrong doesn't mean there can't be wrong things happening elsewhere.
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