Proper Parallels Only

The colonial administrator in England's oldest and least valued possession has declared himself struck by the contemporary resonances in a 1406 letter from the the last Welsh Prince of Wales to a king named Charles the Mad. Although the letter begs help from a proto-Strasbrussels tyrant in overthrowing the civilising influence of the Empire, Mark Drakeford coyly refused to detect any echoes of Global Britain's present internal rumblings. As a believer in a "strong Wales within the union" (viz. continued national subordination mitigated by appropriate privileges for the Right People), he instead saw parallels to the present in Owain Glyndŵr's implied wish for the right to persecute religious dissenters independently of the authority of Canterbury. Whether this reading will prove patriotic enough to spare Drakeford the censure of Team Starmer remains as yet unclear.