Queen Elizabeth II’s unhappy birthday
The assumptions behind Queen Elizabeth II’s monarchy are dissolving before us
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Nicholas Harris
Nicholas Harris is Senior Commissioning Editor (Ideas) at the New Statesman. He is also the TV critic. He has previously been a dishwasher, a bookseller, a waiter and a trolley-parker. He awaits his opportunity to be a pirate, a poet, a pawn or a king. nicholas.harris@newstatesman.co.uk
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