"The Simple, Small-C Conservative Comfort of Continuity with the Past"

"All this represents a double warning to advocates of a republic. First, after Brexit, the last thing anyone will want is the promise of, or even a debate on, more constitutional upheaval. Riding alongside 'Get Brexit Done' was the Tory claim that a Labour government would mean two referendums, one on Europe and a second on Scottish independence. The Conservatives intuited that a big chunk of the public longed for a period in which politics would leave them alone, and for something like a resumption of normality. (It's why the promise of 'radical change' is not always an automatic vote-winner.)"

Jonathan Freedland at The Guardian laments the difficulties anti-monarchists have in Britain.