If you're the mother who was reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone aloud to your child on the LNER train from London to Edinburgh yesterday, one of my grown up children was listening and says you did the voices brilliantlyโค๏ธ๐ฅน
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
Iโd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who bought one of my books even though you never cared about them. It was very kind of you to take pity on me ๐ #blessed
For those who like @adamsosh don't know that politics has boundaries or what the limits of politicking are, especially as regards Royal Protocols and Privileges, may I, as a Prince and citizen, humbly offer some admonition for the edification of all, including public figures who might misrepresent themselves as power desperados and cultural ignoramuses that Royal Communication and Advice are privileged and cannot be subject of public disclosure. Whatever is said or not said during Royal Audience ends and stays within the Palace. Actus contra et infra dignitas Regis such as was quoted or imputed to HM Ewuare II at plenary court during the courtesy visit of @OfficialAPCNg merrymakers at the Palace of the Omo N'Oba N'Edo which was so egregious that it put HM OBA of Benin in an awkward situation of having to voice out a correction clarification or disclaimer in the presence and hearing of all should not be tolerated or glossed over. Our Kings cannot be pawns on the chessboard of politics and they should not be put in a position where they cannot defend themselves or have to defend themselves. The Royal Fathers don't belong to the politicians and they are not seasonal hirelings of the political class to be hired and fired according to how the political fevers break. We must separate the Palaces from politics and separate politicians from the Royal Thrones because politicians don't mind going to hell in high water as long as they can capture power whereas the traditional institutions are part of what we have left when politics has failed. Pageantry, Pomp, Protocols, Rites and Rituals that accompany the colours and sounds of the Palaces are signposts of the remnants of our past glories salvaged to remind us that we came from a grand past and are entitled to claim a great future, especially when the borrowed Western Paradigms breakdown or fail us. At least we have something which is originally and authentically ours.
I am not oblivious to some sad spectacles of late where some Occupants of Sacred Stools have reduced themselves to carousing about and palling around corridors of power and verandas of influence and clubhouses of lucre as ubiquitous assistant celebrants and cheerleaders of all things mundane but such unfortunate minority is no excuse for uppity commoners raptured in the exhilaration of captured power and ephemeral importance to trample over the dignity of true Nobility and natural Kings, and our collective symbols of respectable heritage. Let all concerned please respect themselves. Long Live the Kings