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Thanks to the great proletarian Revolution, this has to be the single greatest April Fool's day ever.

And those decades or centuries of chaos can then be patched up by one good reign (Edward I literally made good on the fuck ups of his father and grandfather, Henry III and bad King John himself respectively). Nobody's arguing that it's perfect, but you can't deny that decisions get made quicker...

Granted, an advantage of powerful monarchies is that they can course correct a great deal more straightforwardly than democracies. Emphasis on can, as they don't always do. Nevertheless, one good reign can undo decades of chaos (for example, Henry VII of England picking up the pieces of the Wars...

This chap, right? If so, dear god, what a chad.

It's a system that is heavily out of balance at the moment. The House of Lords is meant to serve as upper house and representative of the nobility, and somewhat the advisors of the crown, which belies its medieval origins. And the House of Lords was highly representative of tradition, as people...

I don't think it would be a secret...

As I said, I think we have a little too much democracy these days. Notice how the British system functioned reasonably well up until the 20th century? Granted, that was in part down to Victoria having a twenty year long fit over Albert and thus squandering much of Hanoverian royal power, but the...

Imperial Germany was quite handily outcompeting the United States for the majority of its history. And I'm not a papist, thank you very much. As for the Serbia thing, it played a huge part in how the conflict panned out. Something else could well have caused a perhaps smaller and less...

That's not entirely true. Britain's Parliamentary Monarchy has proven vastly more stable and competent than any of the French Republics. Indeed, it could be said that one of the big problems in British politics at the moment is that we have "too much" democracy; the House of Commons has amassed...