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A group of British architects has called for a boycott of a lecture by Charles Windsor who is due to become Britain’s head of state when his mother dies. Mr. Windsor will give the lecture at the Royal Institute of Architects on Tuesday. The nine architects called for a boycott in a letter to the…

In Australia the Senate has held a public hearing on a bill providing for a plebiscite on whether Australia should cut its ties with Britain’s feudal institution. The committee, which is due to report in June, has considered 246 written submissions and has heard nine witnesses. A bill requiring a plebiscite was referred to the…

An New Zealand republican movement opinion poll shows that a majority 45% of citizens are willing for Charles Windsor to become their head of state when his mother dies. Another 43% want their country to become a republic. Support for the feudal system of appointing the head of state is down from 48% in December…

The Royal Mail is to be true to its name by marking the bicentennial year of British and American republican Thomas Paine with the issue of postage stamps honouring 16th century monarchs. The state mail service will issue 6 new stamps commemorating Tudor dynasty members who ruled England from the late 15th to early 17th…

BBC TV News reported on Friday that “a leading republican” had been arrested on a charge of murdering soldiers in Northern Ireland. In fact the arrested man, Colin Duffy, is not known to be a member of any of the main republican organisations in the UK. He has, however, been associated with a small group…

A BBC opinion poll has indicated that 89% of Britons want an end to discrimination against female members of the Windsor family, which has the exclusive right to provide the head of state under Britain’s feudal constitution. Nineteen percent favour continued discriminations against Catholics and seventy-six per cent believed that the majority of citizens should…

The government of New Zealand is to sponsor a research project into the role of its hereditary head of state, who it shares with Britain and some former British colonies. Two constitutional lawyers will spend three years looking at the country’s constitution. A Cabinet Officer legal researcher will work with them. Former governor-general Cath Tizard…

Mark Dreyfus, who chairs the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Australian parliament, has called for a plebiscite to measure support for an Australian republic. Prime minister Kevin Rudd, a republican, had said that a referendum would not be a priority in the first term of his Labour Party government. Mr. Dreyfus believes that a plebiscite,…

Britain’s conservatives have reacted to talk of ending the privileges of Britain’s minority Anglicans with the horror stories that have long characterised their resistance to the application of democratic principles to Britain’s feudal constitution. Conservative party shadow justice secretary Nick Herbert said that disestablishment of the Church of England would be “constitutional vandalism”. An editorial…

New Zealand has appointed the its first Senior Counsel. The title is given to senior barristers (trial lawyers) in some former British colonies in place of Queen’s Counsel. Both New Zealand and Australia now use the term, although both have Britain’s hereditary head of state as their national figurehead. The New Zealand republican movement welcomed…