Category: Republic

One of the new titles given to William Windsor when he married Kate Middleton was Baron Carrickfergus. This was considered an offensive title  by some Irish people who knew that the town of Carrickfergus was where King William III of England began his Protestant conquest of Ireland in 1689. Britain also used an historic castle…

Republic, the British campaign against monarchy, has confirmed that Britain’s feudal head of state arrangements cost much more than claimed by defenders of the undemocratic institution. A report published last week says the true cost of this system of hereditary privilege to the people of Britain is £202.4m a year, not the £40m claimed by…

Community Event Hijacked The Big Lunch, an effort to get neighbours socialising, is to be politicised in 2012 to help the Windsor clan hold on to its feudal privileges. The annual event is to be renamed the “Big Jubilee Sunday Lunch” and will be included in a programme of events to mark the sixtieth year…

The Australian new site Perth Now has revealed that Australian police are spying on republicans ahead of a Windsor family visit to that country in October. State security police drove 270km to question republican Mark Tomkinson after he joked on his blog about dropping green paint on Kate Middleton when she married a leading Windsor…

Prince Philip appointment shows severe lack of judgment Toronto, June 11, 2011 – Citizens for a Canadian Republic is breaking its longstanding policy of avoiding criticism of the British royals by expressing its shock and bewilderment at Prime Minister Harper’s decision to appoint Prince Philip as an honorary admiral and general in the Canadian Armed…

If there was any doubt that the Labour Party supports hereditary privilege it has been eliminated by a revelation about the artistic preferences of Peter Mandleson, a senior minister in the last government. According to reports of an exhibition of works of art purchased by the state, Mandleson’s choices for decorating his offices while business…

According to the Financial Times British Prime Minister David Cameron had to rely on a plane provided by little known Eastern Airways when he attended the G8 meeting in France recently. The president of France arrived in a jet emblazoned “Republique Française “. The Italian and Canadian prime ministers both had impressive jets too. The…

The Telegraph newspaper has reported that in a new public relations drive by monarchists the government is negotiating with the Windsor family to reduce their taxpayer handouts in a way “acceptable to both parties”. The newspaper said that the clan would be losing “a significant amount of their £39.9 million annual income. The cut was…

The UK has fallen from position 25 to 23 since 2009 in Freedom House’s rating. The democracy watch dog reports that “Even in more democratic countries—such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey, and the United Kingdom—internet freedom is increasingly undermined by legal harassment, opaque censorship procedures, or expanding surveillance”. The full report is at…

Writer Martin Amis has given expression to the frustration felt by many Britons who endure a state that favours hereditary privilege more than merit. He told the French Le Nouvelle Observateur magazine that he would prefer “not to be English”. Mr. Amis described meeting hereditary head of state Elizabeth Windsor when she seemed not to…