News from the Centre for Citizenship

An MP who once insisted on wearing body armour while on a walkabout with police meeting citizens in her Peckham constituency might be expected to have difficulty with the concept of public accountability. So it is with Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party. Harman has found fault with a government proposal to give…

But Comparison With Police and Press Faulty Forty five per cent of Britons believe it “very important” that we keep the monarchy according to a survey by NatCen Social Research. That might seem not to be such bad news for republicans. However, six years ago only 27 per cent expressed such support for the feudal…

The latest challenge to the Crown Estate has come from the Orkney Islands Council in Scotland. According to the Financial Times “A key goal of Orkney is to wrest control of the seabed around the islands from the Crown Estate . . .. Although such assets have long held relatively marginal economic importance, the development…

A “livid” Andrew Windsor, known to monarchists as “Prince Andrew” and “Duke of York”, tore a strip off police who mistook him for an intruder at a Windsor palace in London, according to the Sunday Express. In an official statement Windsor, who seems to have been embarrassed that he was not recognised, said the police…

The BBC has given its senior managers almost £2m more than they were entitled to in severence payments according to the National Audit Office. The payments were made over a three year period in lieu of notice and as “discretionary payments” to staff asked to leave. The state-sponsored media company said that the payments were…

Says His Views Count More Than Voters’ The fabulously wealthy, uniquely privileged Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, and heir apparent Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor believes, according to a report in the Financial Times, that he brings a “unique perspective to lawmaking and could reflect the issues people raise with him…

Sovereignty of the People Important, She Says Aileen Campbell, minister for children and young people in the Scottish government, has said that a republic should be an option for an independent Scotland. Ms. Campbell said that “the sovereignty of the people is a very important thing” and the people should decide. The Crown is sovereign…

Secret | This document is the property of her Britannic Majesty’s Government | 4 March 1983 The recently declassified draft of a speech to be given by Britannic Majesty Windsor in the event of nuclear war draws attention to the difficulties in the monarchist notion that the “royal” family has a commonality with a “national…

Vicky Pryce has been thrown out of the Order of the Bath by hereditary head of state Windsor. Ms. Pryce was awarded the honour for “services to economics” and lost it because she was convicted of perverting the course of justice. This was thought by Windsor and her advisers to have brought the feudal honours…

Major Parties Stick With Affront to Democracy Republican sentiment has has come to the surface in the pro-independence camp as Scotland approaches the referendum vote. Denis Cavan, who chairs Yes Scotland, has called for a post-independence referendum on dumping the monarchy. The independent member of the Scottish Parliament declared that true democracy is based on…