Half Mast: Mortality, Monarchy, Morality

Guest Post: Captain Scott Campbell

This is a first for Pitchfork Papers. I have asked fellow Substack publisher Scott Campbell if he would be happy for me to reprint his truly excellent letter written, as usual, somewhere out at sea on one of his frequent maritime commands on the occasion of the passing of HM The Queen Elizabeth II, or Elizabeth the Great as Boris Johnson dubbed her in h…