Category: Republic

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…

A report in the Financial Times has confirmed the extraordinary arrogance and contempt for democratic principles of the hereditary legislators who have seats in Britain’s parliament and their supporters. The House of Lords has amended legislation to abolish hereditary seats in parliament to allow the former hereditary legislators to keep their seats until death if…

The National Secular Society (NSS) has called on the local government minister to ensure that the “great wealth” of the state church is taken into account when deciding whether taxpayers’ money should be given for the upkeep of its buildings, The NSS said that money should be given to religious groups only if there was…

Britain’s state church carries out exorcisms but does not know how many children it has exorcised, according to a report by the National Secular Society (NSS). The exorcisms are called “rites of deliverance” and are intended to cast out demons. The NSS arranged for a questions about these “rites” to be asked in the House…

The previous government, Conservative, offered a portrait of Charles Windsor, new hereditary head of state, to all public bodies. In the portrait Mr Windsor is resplendent in a military uniform, with medals not won in battle. According to the then deputy prime minister the portraits would remind citizens that Charlie Windsor was the “ultimate public…

A new book by Andrew Lownie has reinforced the case against monarchy by examining the life of Andrew Wilson. Mr Wilson is known to monarchists as Prince Andrew or the Duke of York. Windsor is the brother of Britain’s hereditary head of state and a son of the preceding one. In a review of Lownie’s…