A right Royal cock-up. Prince Andrew elected to the Royal Society

Today the Royal Society elected Andrew, Duke of York, as a “Royal Fellow”. Well, to be exact. 11% of them did. The numbers, which the Society has not made public, were as follows (as fraction of the electorate, 1300 Fellows) Yes                                  147     (11%) No                                   24        (2%) Blank ballot                       1       (0.0008%) Failed to vote              1128      (87%) Hardly resounding support, then. When I heard that the Society’s Council had nominated the Duke of York, I was sufficiently outraged to write a piece along the lines below. I was thinking about breaking the rules and going public with it before the election. I’m not particularly republican, but I do think that the Royal family still have too much influence on politics (as well as pernicious social effects). On Monday 8th April I discussed ...
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