2026-07-01
No, not Trump for once.
This is about William of Orange, King of the Dutch, who was invited over to the UK to displace King James, allegedly because William was a protestant and James a Catholic. He almost didn't make landfall, being driven by inappropriate winds down the channel as far as Brixham, and having to march all the way back up to London.
Whilst Trump is battling his own constitutional rats' nest in America, Will Keyte reminds us that we also have our very own constitutional rats' nest in the UK, and no, it wasn't all down to Tony Blair, he was just the latest meddler to "improve" it. Yes, history is complicated.
It's also contentious because whilst plenty of the self-opinionated classes will profess to know exactly why historical events occurred, I remain sceptical about their powers of clairvoyance.
So I'll leave it to Will Keyte to review our errant English constitutional landscape. I'm confident that we are in good hands.
