Binding A Popular Feeling

"If you are British, you would be a very ignorant person not to see it matters in our history and in our future. Republicans are right to suspect that those with "real power in our society" have used The Monarchy to bind popular feeling to the interests of the State. It is not a coincidence that, as the revolutionaries began to use public ceremonies and uniforms - blackshirts, brownshirts, redshirts - to inspire a mass following, so The Monarchy raised its game." More.