Category: Republic

The release of papers related to Andrew Windsor by the Department for Business and Trade has made one thing clear at least. It is the servility towards the so-called royal family of those supposed to look after the interests of the British people. The release of these papers is a rare case of head of…

Attacks on free speech by the British state are continuing with a report from Republic that the Metropolitan police took down a republican banner during a protest against monarchy in London, while doing nothing to stop expressions of support for the feudal institution. Republic alsosay that “Met Police had attempted to suppress Republic’s protest, putting…

Britain has taken another small step towards democracy, expelling the last hereditary legislators from its House of Lords legislative chamber. The remaining legislators in that chamber, including bishops, will continue to hold their seats for life, with no accountability to the people of this country. And, in a compromise agreed to get the bill through…

Britain has taken a step towards democracy by removing the hereditary legislators from Parliament. On 10 March the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill finally became law, despite the efforts of hereditary legislators and other legislators-for-life to block it. The bill takes away the right of some so-called-lords to inherit a seat in Parliament from…

The latest attempt to bring democracy to Britain’s legislature is missing in action. The House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill would if enacted remove the 92 hereditary legislators from parliament. Britain shares the distinction of allowing hereditary legislators to sit in its legislature with only one other country, Lesotho. In September 2025 the bill entered…

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…