Book review: Abolish the Monarchy, by Graham Smith

Over the Easter holidays I had a stump to dig out in the garden. It was going to be a long job, so I decided to choose an audiobook to accompany the task. Something I wouldn’t normally get round to reading. And since I was going to spend all day hacking at something obsolete but hard to uproot, a book about abolishing the monarchy seemed ironically appropriate.

I can feel some readers bristling already, so let me summarise my views of the monarchy so you know where I’m coming from. My in...