An Englishman Says Abolish Monarchy
As an Englishman, I feel a need to respond to the accusation that we are all twits who dote on the monarchy. In 1994 I wrote an editorial declaring The Economist, of which I was then the editor, to be republican and arguing that the monarchy should be abolished. It is an anachronism from a past age of deference, and stands in the way of proper constitutional checks and balances. Lacking any legitimacy, it can no longer be a check itself.
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