Quakers, arise!
Howard Wilson Hilton argues that our present way of doing politics is insufficiently democratic and operates counter to our commitments to Peace, Equality, Simplicity and Truth
When, years ago, I brought my new Swiss wife to live with me in Britain, she applied for British nationality, while retaining her Swiss citizenship. This required that she went to a lawyer and took an oath to be a faithful subject of the monarch: Elizabeth II. It troubled her a little, as she had grown up conceiving of herself as an independent citizen of her republic, subject only to God and the law. For her, the sovereign was ‘The People’. It follows that our married life has had one foot in Europe and one here, where I have inherited a system in which I know my place.
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