In the last of the current run of Will Self’s A Point of View on Radio 4 tonight at 8.50pm, he reflects on the historical tradition of the Loyal Toast. A week before the Jubilee celebrations get underway, he muses on where deference is properly due: “I have never risen for the Loyal Toast, and unless some apoplectic patriot holds a gun to my head, I doubt I ever will.”
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