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The announcement that the government intends to encourage teenagers to swear an oath of fealty to the crown has me spitting blood (again). I hope, by the time that Owen (and the little brother to be) are old enough to have the choice, my republican beliefs have rubbed off and they give this farcical idea the response it deserves.

I've never understood the American oath of fealty thing (my ex-wife told me about having to do the whole flag thing at high school). It makes a little more sense in a monarchy but monarchy is hideous archaism anyway.

People don't owe anything to the state in terms of loyalty. We create the state; it *is* us. If anything the state owes us loyalty. The state serves us, we should not serve the state. We have allowed the modern state to turn into something quite frightening and I don't know if there is any way back out.