Month: April 2011

Writer Martin Amis has given expression to the frustration felt by many Britons who endure a state that favours hereditary privilege more than merit. He told the French Le Nouvelle Observateur magazine that he would prefer “not to be English”. Mr. Amis described meeting hereditary head of state Elizabeth Windsor when she seemed not to…

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg thinks it is “a little old fashioned” that female Windsor clan members are discriminated against when it comes to sharing the feudal privileges to which the clan lays claim. Clegg, who is responsible for constitutional reform, does not seem to find “old fashioned” the monarchy against which British democrats have…