Monday 16 January 2012

We're all in this together

Now, I'm as royalist as the next man - more so, actually, considering that 'the next man' is usually also a member of the Liberal Democrats which has more than its fair share of republicans. Not so much as one of my French teachers at school, who used to start her lessons by asking us searching questions about the content of the Court Circular from the Daily Telegraph ('et où est la princesse Anne aujourd'hui?'), but enough to know I prefer the stability of a constitutional monarchy to the circus of a presidential system.

But that doesn't mean we have to fling money at it like there's no tomorrow, and Michael Gove's latest suggestion that in the middle of a recession, when people are losing their jobs and public services are shrinking before our eyes, we should all club together to buy one of the richest women in the world a yacht just beggars belief.

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