Category: Republic

Only Subjects Fit for Bank of England Canadian Mark Carney is eligible for consideration for the job of Governor of the Bank of England because he “is a subject of the Queen” according to one insider quoted in the Financial Times. “That is important” said the feudalist. The comment may suggest that republicans would be…

Windsors Keep Theirs Under Wraps Liz Windsor’s astuteness in using public decorum as a device to protect her family’s extraordinary privileges has been put in relief by events in Spain. Popular support for that country’s monarchy fell recently after the revelation that hereditary head of state Juan Carlos Borbón had been hunting elephants in Africa…

Parliamentary Committee Supports Unelected Legislators The writer of a popular TV soap would lose his seat if the people were allowed to elect the legislators in what is now called the House of Lords. That example of the horrible effects of democracy is taken from a Sunday Telegraph report on a new parliamentary committee’s report…

The Washington Post has reported that censors in Thailand have banned a movie adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth because it “has content that causes divisiveness among the people of the nation.” According to the film’s director the censors did not like anti-monarchy overtones or what they saw as political content. The newspaper said that the Thai…

Monarchy is all about family. One family is considered by the state to be superior to others. So the head of state can come only from that family. The people are allowed no say. And family members are granted extraordinary privileges, particularly that of picking the pockets of the people they are deemed superior to.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

On average only about 1.5% of the population attended a Church of England church on Sundays in 2010 according to figures released by the state institution. This was a 2% fall from 2009. Over the week as a whole 1.8% attended one of its churches. The National Secular Society estimates that the Anglican Church has…