Because the Guardian notes this morning:

Regardless of the car-crash high quality of Prince Harry’s sulk from a middle-status rowbehind Princess Anne’s feathered hat and the introduction to the coronation of that gown by Penny Mordaunt, the sword-wielding chief of the Commons, the standout story of the crowning of King Charles III on Saturday continues to be the arrest, hours earlier than the occasion at Westminster Abbey, of Smith and the 5 different key organisers of the primary Republican protest.

This isn’t simply within the UK. The New York Occasions goes large on it this morning, for instance.

I’ve made my very own place on this challenge fairly clear. I assist Republic. I gave up on the monarchy within the 80s, as I recall, all the time believing that its demise was a needed precondition of the creation of a correct democracy.

However there may be one other twist to this now. Has the police arresting, after which apologising to, members of Republic really superior its trigger, with new protest legal guidelines backfiring because of this? My view is that that is no justification for these legal guidelines and that their rapid failure will make reform of them extra possible however what do you assume? Two polls:

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