When I approach a songbird in the hedgerow it seem to think: "Shall I sing my usual from the top or skip the odd verse?"
The wary kestrel on the wire thinks "Here comes trouble, but he is not going to get me for sure."
In such circumstances a dog looks at your face; a cat at your feet. A sheep squats briefly, then moves away a few paces and looks at you with alternate eyes. Bullocks run over for a closer look and a sniff, each daring its chums.
Humans can resemble any of these.
10 December 2018
05 December 2018
Contempt of Parliament
To the Editor of the Times (London),
Dear Sir,
The Queen has indeed charged her ministers (and not the House of Commons) with the task of formulating policy and managing the day to day running of the country. But the Queen, though the monarch, is not the sovereign; the sovereign is Parliament.
This status and hierarchy was established in the Civil War of 1642 — 1649. In some countries these battles for supremacy have to be fought every few few decades by successive generations. (See, for example, France.) In England we have been spared such traumatic struggles by simply remembering the Civil War and its outcome. Let us continue to remember.
Yours sincerely, Ian West
Dear Sir,
The Queen has indeed charged her ministers (and not the House of Commons) with the task of formulating policy and managing the day to day running of the country. But the Queen, though the monarch, is not the sovereign; the sovereign is Parliament.
This status and hierarchy was established in the Civil War of 1642 — 1649. In some countries these battles for supremacy have to be fought every few few decades by successive generations. (See, for example, France.) In England we have been spared such traumatic struggles by simply remembering the Civil War and its outcome. Let us continue to remember.
Yours sincerely, Ian West
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