Category: Republic

The Crown’s Silence, a new book by Brook Newman, shows how the British monarchy and its navy expanded and protected the trade in slave for hundreds of years. By the time that that transatlantic trade was abolished in the British Empire in 1807 the British Crown was the biggest buyer of slaves in the world.…

Britain’s unelected legislators in the House of so-called Lords have been showing their contempt for democracy with new force. The legislators-for-life are filibustering the assisted dying bill that has been passed by the House of Commons in a disgraceful attempt to nullify the democratic process. These “lords” have put forward many amendments to the bill…

No one is as adept at playing the British people for fools than Windsor family members. They are doing so again by taking £1.5m a year from British taxpayers until 2033 in rent on a building that is useless, Dartmoor Prison. The rent is paid to the Duchy of Cornwall,. The Duchy is a public…

Police in Windsor have threatened to arrest republicans if they use their right of free speech against the monarchy. According to Republic the Thames Valley Police stopped its supporters holding up a banner saying “Charles, what are you hiding?” as Britain’s hereditary head of state passed in company with the German President on a visit…

To be fair to the Windsor family it should be noted that not all of their extraordinary wealth has come at the expense of taxpayers. The Guardian newspaper has looked into the sources of the wealth of the notorious Andrew Windsor. Like the others in his family he has been well cared for by extraordinary…

The arrangement by which Andrew Windsor, son of the head of state, leases a 30-bed house in Windsor from the Crown Estate, (a publicly owned portfolio of property and other assets), has caused widespread criticism. However the Labour government has been doing its best to protect the super-wealthy Windsor family and the feudal institution that…

 The National Secular Society (NSS) notes that the “UK stands alone among Western democracies in granting religious clerics seats in its legislature – 26 bishops who can vote on our laws simply by virtue of their office”. But it has recently reported that the British dependency of the Isle of Man is making progress in…

Greenpeace has accused the Crown Estate of putting profit above the national interest in its management of the UK seabed. The Estate is the main source of funding for Britain’s so called “royal” Windsor family. Twelve percent of the Estate’s profits are given by the British state to the Windsors. The Crown Estate owns the…

The appointment of Sarah Mullally as the new leader of Britain’s state church has drawn attention to an important aspect of the relationship between the church and the state, a relationship that violates the democratic principle of separation of church and state. For the Crown Nominations Commission that recommended the state cleric for the job…

Official Report: Support For British Monarchy At “Historic Low” The latest British Social Attitudes survey shows that support for the parasitic affront to democracy known as the monarchy is at an “historic low”. The number of Britons who believe that monarchy is “very” or “quite” important has fallen to 51% from 86% in 1983 when…