27 August 2022

Julian Stallabrass: Fake royal magic on show in palace photographs

Honours dishonour, Gustave Flaubert once wrote, confronted with the fabulously pompous, corrupt and incompetent regime of the 19th-century Second French Empire. That succinct formulation may find an echo in our present, knee-deep as we are in newly minted lords, baronesses and knights, elevated mostly for theirservices to the Conservative Party.