Royal Babylon an investigative poem

[stonehart]

"This is an investigative poem about the criminal record of the British Monarchy. Heathcote Williams has devised a form of polemical poetry that is unique, no-holds-barred personal and political. It is a great collection of facts that most people are unaware of.
Can we go on bowing and curtsying to people who are just like ourselves? We begin to wish that the Zoo should be abolished.
That the royal family should be given the run of some wider pasturage – a royal Whipsnade. Will the British Empire survive?
Will Buckingham Palace look as solid in 2034 as it does now? Words are dangerous things remember. A Republic might be brought into being by a poem."

I found this interesting....

 

[Muadib]

I find it interesting as well, though I'm curious as to how the British members of the forum feel about it. I love the Sex Pistols intro, God Save the Queen is one of my favorite albums of all time. I think we get a rather skewed view of how the British public feels about their monarch over here in America, but that's just speculation on my part.