Hello and welcome to the spike podcast I'm Fraser Myers and back with me as ever we have

Spikes editor Tom Slater. Hello phrase. Coming up on today's show we'll be talking about

the coronation of King Charles, the downfall of Bud Light, and George Osborne's mad

and miserable plan to ban smoking.

So the eyes of the world this weekend will be on the coronation of King Charles in London.

Tom, for such a big occasion such as this it does feel as if the mood is a little bit

damp there hasn't been that much excitement or anticipation that's the sense I'm getting

at least I think that's right I mean you know we might be made to eat our

words when suddenly you have a huge coronation that everyone's very happy about

unsolved it does feel going into it that it is very damp I mean if you look at the

polls for instance the support and the popularity that both the monarchy and Charles himself

enjoyed in the wake of the Queen's funeral and all of the National Morning and so on is kind of dip back down to where it was previously.

I think there's a general sense that whilst the monarchy still commands significant support,

it's around 63% of the public I think at this point, it's support that is wide, but not necessarily

deep.

There is a dampness to it, and I think you see that expressed in this coronation.

I think what monarchists are going to have to sort of reckon with if they want to is the fact that

whilst many of them felt that they were kind of riding high particularly in the wake of the Queen's

death because it kind of reasserted the institution, its traditions, its power and so on, that a lot of the monarchy's popularity

in recent years rested on the popularity of the Queen herself and now with Charles,

someone who's been a much more controversial figure is is about, I think, the fourth or fifth,

most popular royal is it currently.

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