Editor
As milestones in British life go, the two could hardly have had less in common: Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III, the grandest of all royal spectacles, and two days earlier, grass-roots elections for the mayors and other officials who are responsible for fixing potholes and picking up the trash.
Yet each, in its own way, confirmed a Britain on the cusp of change.
The stinging defeat of the Conservatives in elections on Thursday suggested that Britain’s governing party could very…
