Go for a walk in the City and you can see nearly two thousand years of British history.
* London Wall
* The Tower of London (to the east)
* St. Paul's
* Bunhill Fields (to the north)
* The Bank of London
* The Gherkin
* The Guildhall
* The Strand and Temple (to the west)
The monarchy should disappear because keeping some posh people in gilded cages by virtue of birth is fundamentally incompatible with liberal democracy.
It's not the same thing. Objects exists from every period. Living relics do not. I'm British, but I was not born in the UK. There is some charm to the entire thing of a long lasting tradition along side modernity. I don't see it as incompatible at all. I know enough republicans to know it's not a point that has a point of arguing about.
* London Wall
* The Tower of London (to the east)
* St. Paul's
* Bunhill Fields (to the north)
* The Bank of London
* The Gherkin
* The Guildhall
* The Strand and Temple (to the west)
The monarchy should disappear because keeping some posh people in gilded cages by virtue of birth is fundamentally incompatible with liberal democracy.