Blossom of Snow, May You Bloom and Grow

Misha Glenny's programme on the historical importance of the Alps was exactly what Radio Four is about. There are three existing true, non-Eurofederalist unions of Latin and Teutonic peoples, each with a social democracy as an expression of Christian principles. In one, that union, that social democracy and those principles are safeguarded by the Crown. In another, by another monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. And the third is Switzerland, one of the last genuinely distinctive and self-governing countries on earth, and at last showing signs of sorting out her rogue statehood with regard to assisted suicide.