Philobiblon: A constitutional assumption

Sunday, January 08, 2006

A constitutional assumption

The BBC is this morning reporting on both Radios 4 and 5 news on Prince William starting at Sandhurst, describing him as "the man who will one day be head of Britain's armed forces". Surely that is making a rather large assumption about what Britain's constitution might be in 40-plus years' time?

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hear hear!

Though I'm sure there's some old law that makes it treason if the BBC suggests anything else...

1/08/2006 10:32:00 am  
Blogger Nathanael said...

Natalie, you're not already building barricades in the streets, are you?

1/08/2006 02:29:00 pm  
Blogger Natalie Bennett said...

No, not on this issue anyway - I'm a republican, although it is certainly not the biggest issue in British politics. But while-ever you have "right of birth" as the ranking principle at the top of society, it can't be healthy.

1/08/2006 09:00:00 pm  

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