My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.
The worship of Thomas More goes beyond Catholics.
No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.
Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.