Looking for a Leader to Save Us

Rev. Stephen Steele writes in the local Stranraer paper: “Last month, The Times had a fascinating article entitled ‘It’s too much to hope the King can save us from ourselves’. The author, A. N. Wilson, said that with the country in economic, political and social turmoil, there was a real sense that the British public were looking to Charles III to turn things around. Commentators have been talking about the King ‘hitting the ground running’ – a phrase more suited to a politician than a monarch. And yet for Wilson, the very strength of constitutional monarchy, as exemplified in Queen Elizabeth II, is to remain above politics. And so although there are tough times ahead, ‘we lay an unnecessary burden on our new King if we pretend that he, or any monarch, is able to solve them’.” Read the rest of this article here.