News from the Centre for Citizenship

Official Report: Support For British Monarchy At “Historic Low” The latest British Social Attitudes survey shows that support for the parasitic affront to democracy known as the monarchy is at an “historic low”. The number of Britons who believe that monarchy is “very” or “quite” important has fallen to 51% from 86% in 1983 when…

A report in the Financial Times has confirmed the extraordinary arrogance and contempt for democratic principles of the hereditary legislators who have seats in Britain’s parliament and their supporters. The House of Lords has amended legislation to abolish hereditary seats in parliament to allow the former hereditary legislators to keep their seats until death if…

The National Secular Society (NSS) has called on the local government minister to ensure that the “great wealth” of the state church is taken into account when deciding whether taxpayers’ money should be given for the upkeep of its buildings, The NSS said that money should be given to religious groups only if there was…

Britain’s state church carries out exorcisms but does not know how many children it has exorcised, according to a report by the National Secular Society (NSS). The exorcisms are called “rites of deliverance” and are intended to cast out demons. The NSS arranged for a questions about these “rites” to be asked in the House…

The previous government, Conservative, offered a portrait of Charles Windsor, new hereditary head of state, to all public bodies. In the portrait Mr Windsor is resplendent in a military uniform, with medals not won in battle. According to the then deputy prime minister the portraits would remind citizens that Charlie Windsor was the “ultimate public…

A new book by Andrew Lownie has reinforced the case against monarchy by examining the life of Andrew Wilson. Mr Wilson is known to monarchists as Prince Andrew or the Duke of York. Windsor is the brother of Britain’s hereditary head of state and a son of the preceding one. In a review of Lownie’s…

Britain’s failure to separate church and state as democracy requires has usually been most apparent in the existence of a state church and presence of its clerics among the other unelected legislators in the House of Lords. Now there is a risk that the Catholic Church will also benefit from a privileged status as Flintshire…

The National Secular Society (NSS) has drawn attention to the way in which some religious organisations hold their hands out for taxpayers’ money to help them maintain their buildings rather than use their own financial resources. In a submission to the government the Society drew particular attention to the wealthy Church of England which has…

The Times newspaper has called for a halt to the “royal gravy train” that funds the British monarchy. In an editorial it said that the “ludicrously generous funding formula” that puts millions into the pockets of the so called “royal” family should be ended. The Times also rebutted the idea advanced by family members that…

The state church clerics who are given seats in the House of Lords “offer a unique and varied spiritual perspective” according to a speaker who recently addressed the House of Commons. The speaker also referred approvingly to the ways in which the Anglican Church is intertwined with the executive and legislature. You might imagine that…