Month: March 2012
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Australians To Ramp Up Republic Campaign
Not Right To Wait For Windsor Death David Morris, new leader of the Australian Republican Movement, has promised to use the Windsor “jubilee” to ramp up the fight to free his country of the feudal institution of monarchy. He disagreed with the Australian prime minister’s statement that the death of Elizabeth Windsor would be the…
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BBC Allows Token Republican Interview
Queen Not Untouchable Says Republic Leader The BBC has broadcast a seven minute interview with Graham Smith, Chief Executive of Republic, the anti-monarchy group and MP Paul Flynn. This followed Republic’s campaign for fair treatment after years of anti-republican bias by the state broadcaster. It had accused the Corporation of “fawning” coverage of this year’s…
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Emails Expose BBC Propaganda Plan
The BBC’s monarchist bias has been confirmed by emails leaked to the Republic group. They show how the state broadcaster planned to exclude any criticism of Britain’s hereditary head of state Elizabeth Windsor from a documentary it commissioned to celebrate Windsor’s sixty years in office Emma Findlay, a producer working on a documentary, wrote to…
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BBC Denies Anti-Republic Bias
The BBC has turned down an an appeal against its rejection of a complaint that it has again shown bias against republicans. The biased report was on the acquittal of Colin Duffy on charges of killing British soldiers. The state broadcaster referred to Duffy, without qualification, as a “leading republican”. Duffy is, in fact, little…