is that it’s not enormously exciting. The royals aren’t very exciting either, but they at least do warm the cockles of a few old dears, and everyone likes a nice parade, so they seem to be more popular than the alternative – if only just because it’s easier to have a festival for something pointless than against something pointless. Anyway, every now and then a little glimmer of hope comes along, and this month is a vintage with two of them for our delectation. Abolitionist whingers like me can check out this and this and have a little self-satisfied smirk to yourself. Mean to laugh maybe, but as Mark Thomas apparently said (apropos something else entirely): “They’ve got our money and our land, but at least we can stop them having fun.”