Month: March 2011

The Dalai Lama has denounced monarchy, saying that “The rule by spiritual leaders, the rule of kings or rajahs is now outdated”. The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists announced that he was giving up the political power that has been attached to his position for centuries. He said he not want to be like the…

Persuading legislator-for-life that they should lose their feudal privileges was a “hard process” according to Thomas Galbraith, who also goes by “Lord Strathclyde” and is Leader of the House of Lords. This admission that even when it comes to ending feudal privilege, the privileged call the shots, is a reminder of how far Britain has…

The Financial Times newspaper has shown implicit support for the British monarchy. In an editorial advising Andrew Windsor, who is both a “prince” and a “duke” in the country’s official class hierarchy, to resign as Britain’s trade ambassador the FT warned that the increasing criticism that he has received “threatens to embarrass the royal family”.…

Tristam Hunt, a Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent, has advised William Windsor on how to avoid losing the unjust feudal privilege of becoming hereditary head of state. In an article in The Institute of Public Policy Research tank’s quarterly journal he advises the second in line for Britain’s highest public office that the needs to think…