In the early months of the Second World War, newspapers in Allied and neutral countries carried reports that the Nazi occupation forces in Poland had imposed the death penalty for a number of apparently trivial offences, including the wearing of felt hats. Was this true? Or was it crude Allied propaganda, or mistaken reporting through the fog of war? Did the Germans really enforce such an insane prohibition?
If Labour rejects the hereditary peerage, it must abhor the monarchy
To repudiate the principle of hereditary succession to a peerage is an implicit repudiation of the succession to the throne.
