John Rowland wrote:
wrote:
(a) the new name for the Imperial War Museum
National War Museum...
But which nation - or should the Commonwealth stuff go?
and (b) the replacement for the Order of the British Empire?
Order of the British Nation.
Could that risk getting bogged down in the concept of a "nation" as a
"people", with its ethnic/linguistic connotations? It's not a problem
with Empire, which is purely a bit anachronistic.
More practically, if the honours were abolished or given a more
touchy-feely name, it would mean that the newspapers would have nothing
to moan about during the slow news period around the new year.
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK