Month: October 2006
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Canadian Soldier Challenges Windsor Toast
Captain Aralt Mac Giolla Chainnigh of the Canadian army is suing the Federal Government and the chief of the defence staff to stop Canadian soldiers having to toast Elizabeth Windsor, who is the hereditary head of state of both Canada and Britain. He has been using the military grievance system for five years to have…
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Licence Payers Pay For Information Suppression
The BBC is spending income from TV licence fees on an expensive legal battle to keep secret an internal report. Two barristers were employed by the state media giant in a two-day hearing by an Information Tribunal. Ruling against the BBC, the Tribunal said that the report on the Corporation’s coverage of the Middle East…
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Italian “Prince” Admits Killing
The admirers of monarchy might benefit from reading about the antics of the man who might be “king” of Italy had that republic not freed itself from the absurdities of hereditary right in a 1946 referendum. According to newspaper reports Vitorio Emanuele, son of Italy’s last “king”, has been recorded admitting to murder. Mr. Emanuele…
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BBC Survey Exposed
According to research commissioned by the Department of Media people are “on average” willing to pay almost £163 a year at today’s prices for the BBC licence. This is more than the state broadcaster has asked to government to agree. The current fee payable by those who ask the BBC’s permission to watch TV is…