The Queen

‘The Crown’, Netflix’s sumptuous new drama has been out for several weeks now, and has us all hooked. From the first minute its clear to see the amount of money that has been ploughed into the show, and to great effect.  The music, costumes and locations are all of...

As a nation, Britain is in turmoil. A month of increasingly ugly campaigning in the lead up to the EU referendum culminated last Thursday with the murder of an innocent MP, whilst indisputably racist propoganda is being foisted like it’s 1968, and football hooligans are commerating a miserable Euros...

Last Thursday I had a conversation with a friend that left me feeling distressed. With it being the queen’s birthday, my friend had cheerfully informed me (the naive foreigner) that this was only one of them. She has her official birthday in June. This is an odd state of...

It’s a bizarre day when one finds himself in agreement with The Sun newspaper.  They have just released a front page that depicts a still-frame of dubiously obtained footage from Balmoral in 1933. It depicts the Queen Mother and her brother-in-law, Prince Edward, corralling the six year old Queen Elizabeth and...