Just a quick note to acknowledge the advent of 2012...I missed most of the Diamond Jubilee weekend due to work commitments (although I saw enough to make me think that it wasn't a patch on the Golden Jubilee) but I will say that there is immense benefit to having a head of state who stays in place for decades and about whom even the detractors can only find nice or neutral things to say.
The alternative would be to kick some superannuated politician upstairs to the post of head of state. The problem with that is that most politicians are, by their nature, divisive figures who would be detested by at least 50% of the population at any given moment.
This is not a recipe for stability, continuity, cohesion or indeed peace.
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