While I may have my reservations about the monarchy as an institution, I am nonetheless looking forward to reporting on it this week. The Platinum Jubilee will be one of the few remaining opportunities to show my German viewers the Great Britain that they have for decades admired, even adored – a Great Britain embodied by a woman who, for 70 years, has been getting on with the job, remaining polite, modest and respectful of the rules at all times, as if everything was good and well. Which increasingly it isn’t.
Instead, with every passing day, the Boris Johnson government, operating within a moral vacuum, chips away further at Britain’s democratic foundations while much of the media, rather than calling foul, goes along with the game and thus normalises – consciously or not – the gradual erosion of fundamental ethical and constitutional norms in the UK – an erosion that may well end in their outright destruction.
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