Category: Republic

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…

Fifty-five per cent of Canadians want their country to break its link with Britain’s feudal head of state according to a new opinion poll. Another four per cent agree that Canada should become a republic if Charles Windsor becomes head of state. Support for freeing Canada from the feudal institution was strongest amongst males and…

Britain’s state broadcaster is looking at a new logo and name for its enforcement branch, TV Licensing, according to the Sunday Telegraph. Mediawatch-UK told the newspaper that the revamp was a waste of money. Broadcaster Esther Rantzen agreed. She suggested that the media giant might “do a variation of ‘It Could Be You’ (a national…

Britain is resisting a European Commission plan that would reduce the £500,000 paid in farm subsidies to hereditary head of state Elizabeth Windsor. The Commission wants to slash subsidies from taxpayers to the owners of big farms in order to rebut claims that the Common Agriculture Policy favours the rich. But a spokesperson for the…

Two Spanish cartoonists have been fined £2000 each on a charge of insulting Felipe Bourbon, who is heir to the office of head of state. The charge arose from a law intended to boost the birth rate by paying cash to families for adopting or giving birth to a child. Guillermo Torres and Manel Fontevilla…

Charles Windsor, the son of Britain’s hereditary head of state, has been reported by the Sunday Telegraph newspaper to be “very excited” about the conversion of his family’s 9-carriage railway train to run on bio-diesel made from vegetable oil. Mr. Windsor was said in the same article to be concerned about climate change. The heir…