In this age of flights to the moon and heart transplants,” I was asked in a broadcast discussion the other day, “is there really a place for the monarchy?” The question struck me as epitomizing one of our main contemporary fallacies—the equation of leftward politics with scientific progress. I replied that if there were any living creatures on the moon, they would be much more likely to have a monarchy than a parliamentary democracy.
The subject arose because in Britain this has been the most royalist summer since Coronation Year.
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