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🗓️ 9 September 2022
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0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello and joining me down the line this week for this special episode. We have |
0:26.5 | Spiked editor Tom Slater. Hello? And Spiked columnist Ella Wheelen. |
0:32.0 | Hi. |
0:33.0 | And today we're going to be talking about the end of the second Elizabethan age. |
0:38.0 | So Queen Elizabeth II died yesterday, |
0:42.0 | the public were informed around 630 last night. |
0:44.9 | The Queen famously on the throne for 70 years, rain spanning 15 UK Prime Ministers, 14 US Presidents. |
0:55.0 | Tom, if nothing else, Queen Elizabeth II is just an extraordinary historical figure. |
1:01.0 | No, it's a cliche and cliche sent to a bound at times like this, but you do get that real sense of an era coming to an end. I think all of us sort of implicitly think of this period as the modern era, the time that she's been on the throne, you've got to be quite elderly to remember anyone else occupying that particular position. |
1:19.0 | And I also think that yesterday, particularly in that kind of long quiet between what between the Queen |
1:25.9 | actually dying and the public finding out that kind of long period of silence in which the usual |
1:30.3 | churn of the news just had that one 29 word statement about her being |
1:35.7 | unwell to deal with. You got a glimpse of that role that she has played which is to create some sort of sense of fellow feelings, to be some |
1:46.2 | sort of conduit for a sense of nation and a connection to one another. |
1:50.0 | I mean obviously Spights is a Republican publication, proudly so so but in a way I think those are arguments for another day |
1:56.7 | because I think yesterday we really did sort of glimpse the the role that she did play which is was providing that kind of sense of |
2:03.6 | of connectedness even in an era which is increasingly kind of fragmented |
2:07.6 | identitarian splintered and I think that was that was quite interesting |
2:12.0 | and quite powerful really and as you say there's something about the reason that she was such a successful monarch as far as being able to be on the phone for so long, be so popular, was because there was something in her certain values |
2:24.8 | that she was seen to represent that people did genuinely cling to that they did really appreciate. |
2:29.4 | And I think that's definitely worth reflecting on in this moment, not least given the fact that all of the other |
2:35.0 | kind of alternatives in that sense seem so drastically different to those ideas of service and |
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