{"id":9253,"date":"2011-04-29T02:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2011-04-29T03:53:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T02:53:59","slug":"no-future-in-englands-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/04\/29\/no-future-in-englands-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"No future in England&#8217;s dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Contemporary_German_print_depicting_Charles_Is_beheading.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/charles1.jpg\" alt=\"charles1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A German print showing the 1649 execution of Charles I outside the Banqueting House, Whitehall, London.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the so-called &#8220;English Civil War&#8221; of 1649\u201360 was more truthfully &#8220;The English Revolution&#8221;, as the Marxist author Christopher Hill has long maintained, being the direct precursor to both the French and Russian Revolutions. That the English killed their king well over one hundred years before the French Revolutionaries did the same is a fact often overlooked because our Commonwealth failed after only twelve years and the English monarchy returned in 1660. The regicide of Charles I having taken place so much earlier than other European regicides, however, scared future English parliaments into passing just enough reforms to appease subsequent generations, thus averting any real justification for total revolution.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthisdeity.com\/30th-january-1649-\u2013-the-execution-of-charles-i\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dorian Cope<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Just think about the Queen for a moment. That is what is holding the whole of England back\u2026the subservience on the part of a great majority of the English people to this bitch\u2026I say there&#8217;s no hope for them until we have five thousand people out in Trafalgar Square screaming &#8220;Bugger the Queen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>William Burroughs<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twainquotes.com\/Royalty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Twain<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if you need an explanation of the title of this post, go thou <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/RKpMqey0RcE\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German print showing the 1649 execution of Charles I outside the Banqueting House, Whitehall, London. &#8230;the so-called &#8220;English Civil War&#8221; of 1649\u201360 was more truthfully &#8220;The English Revolution&#8221;, as the Marxist author Christopher Hill has long maintained, being the direct precursor to both the French and Russian Revolutions. That the English killed their king &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/04\/29\/no-future-in-englands-dreaming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No future in England&#8217;s dreaming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[1739,1224,1194,1190],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dorian-cope","tag-mark-twain","tag-sex-pistols","tag-william-burroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2pf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}