I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Hi everybody, I'm John Donovan and welcome to Intelligent Squared and to a debate that is prompted by the end of an era

that we have just witnessed and that is the passing of Queen Elizabeth II,

whose personal popularity during her lifetime certainly bolstered the standing of the institution

that she represented for a record 70 years and that is the British monarchy itself.

She certainly helped to hold it up.

It's important to be there. I know that maybe something's a bit dark, the old fashioned

but if it is it's 350,000 we're feeling the same way and just just wanted to say thank you for all the service really.

The opinion I get is how out of touch and out of time this is. Yes it is tradition

but I think it just highlights that this is like a fairy tale, it's like a scene out of a Disney movie.

But now that she is gone, what of the institution itself?

What purpose does it serve for the British people and how is that purpose defined?

And if it does not serve the people, which is the position that America's founding fathers took when they declared independence,

how should we imagine a Britain without a monarch and a monarchy? What would that be like? What would the implications be?

So long live the British monarchy? Yes or no? That's what we're debating.

Our two guests are Graham Smith who leads the group Republic and Philip Blonde who is director of the rest public think tank.

And though their organizations have nearly identical names, these two British writers and thinkers will be answering our question from opposite sides.

Graham and Philip, thanks so much for joining us on Intelligence Quared. Thank you.

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