Am I a republican yet? I really do not want to be. They are usually the people who want to abolish picturesque old ceremonies, but who are not so concerned about alleviating poverty or about stopping wars.
And yet it was New Labour that created the situation in which a man who happened to be married and related to the Queen could get away with breaking a woman's arm and with coming close to killing a baby. He would have gone to court in 1996, and he was quite old even then. But not now.
Does it normally take this long to decide whether or not to bring charges in a case such as this? What would have been the reaction if this had been done by any other questionably asylum-seeking immigrant who had got into this country by marrying his own cousin? Or by any other foreign-born old man whose sister had been married to an SS Officer and whose own real surname was Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg?
Oh, well, if there is no public interest in prosecuting the Duke of Edinburgh for breaking a woman's arm, then there is certainly no public interest in prosecuting me for something that no one, absolutely no one, suggests ever even happened in actual fact. Is there?
Oh, well, if there is no public interest in prosecuting the Duke of Edinburgh for breaking a woman's arm, then there is certainly no public interest in prosecuting me for something that no one, absolutely no one, suggests ever even happened in actual fact. Is there?
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