The Role of the Monarch
The job of the King is to reign, and in that work he performs two main functions: Head of State Unlike politicians, the King does not owe his position to a vote or vested interests.…
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Alan Moore’s Utopia, Dystopia, and Apocalypse Part 4
Click here to read the previous installment. An Apocalypse of Cockatoos: From Hell From Hell feels in many ways like a departure from Alan Moore’s prior work. It isn’t a superhero story like Miracleman, Captain…
Guy Fawkes, Anti-Popery and the Lewes Bonfires
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,I know of no reasonWhy the Gunpowder TreasonShould ever be forgot.Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intentTo blow up the King and Parli’ment.Three-score barrels of powder…