Category: Republic

The BBC has given its senior managers almost £2m more than they were entitled to in severence payments according to the National Audit Office. The payments were made over a three year period in lieu of notice and as “discretionary payments” to staff asked to leave. The state-sponsored media company said that the payments were…

Says His Views Count More Than Voters’ The fabulously wealthy, uniquely privileged Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, and heir apparent Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor believes, according to a report in the Financial Times, that he brings a “unique perspective to lawmaking and could reflect the issues people raise with him…

Sovereignty of the People Important, She Says Aileen Campbell, minister for children and young people in the Scottish government, has said that a republic should be an option for an independent Scotland. Ms. Campbell said that “the sovereignty of the people is a very important thing” and the people should decide. The Crown is sovereign…

Secret | This document is the property of her Britannic Majesty’s Government | 4 March 1983 The recently declassified draft of a speech to be given by Britannic Majesty Windsor in the event of nuclear war draws attention to the difficulties in the monarchist notion that the “royal” family has a commonality with a “national…

Vicky Pryce has been thrown out of the Order of the Bath by hereditary head of state Windsor. Ms. Pryce was awarded the honour for “services to economics” and lost it because she was convicted of perverting the course of justice. This was thought by Windsor and her advisers to have brought the feudal honours…

Major Parties Stick With Affront to Democracy Republican sentiment has has come to the surface in the pro-independence camp as Scotland approaches the referendum vote. Denis Cavan, who chairs Yes Scotland, has called for a post-independence referendum on dumping the monarchy. The independent member of the Scottish Parliament declared that true democracy is based on…

Profit Maximisation Is Key The Church of England, which likes to pose on the moral high ground while accepting the egregiously unwarranted privileges of a feudal church, has been embarrassed by its investment in a pay day lender that it had said it would like to put out of business. The state church has set…

Joseph Nye Lauds Power of Monarchy The newest passenger on the Windsor birth bandwagon comes from the American republic. It’s political scientist and Harvard professor Joseph Nye, writing in a Financial Times article that “For better or worse, the monarchy still matters in global politics”. Professor Nye referred enthusiastically to the “soft power”, which he…

The Financial Times has refuted claims that the the hullabaloo about the birth of George Windsor will give a worthwhile boost to the British economy. The Centre for Retail research had said that the birth would increase retail sales by £243m in a period of nine weeks. In the Wednesday edition of the newspaper economics…

Republic has said that its participation in two BBC News programmes on the Windsor birth were “vetoed” yesterday. It said that this was a part of the marginalisation or suppression of republican opinion. Another example of this marginalisation came in the form of a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg that the birth had…