Let's Take A Closer Look At The UK's Current Constitutional Crisis
Right now, I think I may be the only person who thinks the UK is in a serious constitutional crisis, or at least the only person who's writing about it. In this post a couple of weeks ago , I talked about the basic problem of the UK's constitutional monarchy, in which the sovereign is theoretically "above politics", but the monarch nevertheless opens parliament with a "king's speech" written for him by the prime minister outlining the government's legislative agenda. In that post, I noted the palace's extreme discomfort with any implication in the whole king's speech ritual that the king in any way supported the extremely unpopular Starmer government -- but there's only so much poor Charles can do to distance himself from His Majesty's Government. This is precisely the conundrum Thomas Jefferson, a really smart guy, exploited in the text of the Declaration of Independence: The history of the present King of...