This year Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her Diamond Jubilee. Is it time for Britain's republicans to stop worrying and learn to love the Crown?
One of the more reactionary Oxford colleges used to serve famously boring food to its undergraduates. There was no obvious reason for it. The college had plenty of money and the fellows - the academic staff - enjoyed a superb cellar and the ministrations of an excellent chef. One day a young student asked his tutor why he and his contemporaries had to put up with such needlessly monotonous and unappetising fare. "Oh, it's very simple," came the reply. "It's to stop you complaining about anything important."
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