Category: Republic

British legislators are demonstrating that Britain may be the only developed nation in which it is believed that feudalism is worth defending. MP Gordon Prentice has told the head of the civil service that the “honours system”, under which the state awards feudal titles, will fall into disrepute if Fred Goodwin, former chief executive of…

Defenders of the House of Lords have suffered a further setback as a result of revelations that some legislators-for-life have been keen to accept payments in return for influencing legislation. This has undermined the apologists’ claim that the undemocratic chamber is justified by the high-minded independence of the unelected legislators. The scandal caused the Financial…

Charles Windsor has told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, that he intends to act like a king when he takes over from his mother as Britain’s hereditary head of state. Mr. Dimbleby says that Windsor plans to be a “political” head of state. He describes what is planned as “a seismic shift” in the role of…

According to figures published by the Financial Times a 2head of a clan” in the Italian Mafia can expect to make as much as £408,000 a year. Charles Windsor, second in command of Britain’s Windsor clan, took in excess of £16m from the British people last year. No other country is known to provide the…

The BBC has canceled its champagne order, on which it spent £40,000 of the people’s money last year, amidst fears that the recession will drive more to refuse the £139.50 annual levy that it imposes for permission to watch TV. The feared loss of income is despite the state broadcaster’s recent “Evaders will pay” billboard…

Church of England leaders have been accused of hypocrisy for attacks on city traders. According to the Financial Times the state church commissioners “lend foreign stock from their £5.5bn of investments – an essential support for short-selling”. The newspaper also reported that the church had invested £13m in Man Group, the biggest hedge fund manager.…

The weakness of Britain’s democratic culture has been demonstrated by an extraordinary attack on republicans by former cabinet minister Norman Tebbit. The prominent conservative has alleged that MPs who have signed a House of Commons motion to end the requirement that legislators swear allegiance to the Windsor clan, are attacking the state or wish to…

Charles Windsor, who is due to become Britain’s next hereditary head of state, has told the Daily Telegraph that experiments with genetically modified food are the reason that the world is “facing all these challenges, climate change and everything”. This is believed to be the first time that this explanation for global warming has been…

The BBC Trust’s twelve members claimed an average of £1,000 in expenses last year at the expense of TV viewers who are forced to buy a licence to watch TV. Scotland’s representative on the Board was the most expensive. Jeremy Peat claimed a total of £30,976, a monthly average of £2,581. This included £9,800 for…

“Along with the BBC and the monarchy, the (national health) service has become part of the way in which we define what makes our country special”. So wrote Nicholas Timmins in the Financial Times on 30 June 2008. Mr. Timmins went on to write that the five-year cancer survival rate in Britain is “well down…