King Charles is a gormless half-wit whose coronation bears witness to a failed revolution

That most famous anti-monarchist and defender to the death of democracy and meritocracy, Tom Paine, was not a man who was minded to pull any punches when it came to his excoriation of the existence of a hereditary monarchy.

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Kings succeed each other, not as rationals, but as animals. It signifies not what their mental or moral characters are. Can we then be surprised at the abject state of the human mind in monarchical countries, when the government itself is formed on such an abject levelling system?

Over £100 million of UK taxpayers’ money is being spent not on feeding the hungry or housing the homeless, of which there are millions across a land whose apologists never miss an opportunity to wave their Union Jacks while boasting that Brexit has made Britain great again. No, it is being spent — in reality wasted — on an upcoming pageant of semi-feudal garbage that should have been consigned to the dustbin of history way before now.

Making matters still more abhorrent is the fact that King Charles inherited £650m tax free from…