Though I write this in the small hours of November 5th, rest assured dear readers that I have no intention of re-enacting the Gunpowder...

Such is the inability of the anti-monarchist campaign group ‘Republic’ to understand data, or the United Kingdom’s constitution, that last week the group’s CEO, Graham Smith, stated in the Guardian that ‘A British Republic is inevitable’ . It is in fact not inevitable, nor, as Smith argues, would it be beneficial. For too long, the debate over the monarchy has been trivialised, often with discourses around the tourism sector dominating. It is naïve to think  tourism income is