News from the Centre for Citizenship

Profit Maximisation Is Key The Church of England, which likes to pose on the moral high ground while accepting the egregiously unwarranted privileges of a feudal church, has been embarrassed by its investment in a pay day lender that it had said it would like to put out of business. The state church has set…

Joseph Nye Lauds Power of Monarchy The newest passenger on the Windsor birth bandwagon comes from the American republic. It’s political scientist and Harvard professor Joseph Nye, writing in a Financial Times article that “For better or worse, the monarchy still matters in global politics”. Professor Nye referred enthusiastically to the “soft power”, which he…

The Financial Times has refuted claims that the the hullabaloo about the birth of George Windsor will give a worthwhile boost to the British economy. The Centre for Retail research had said that the birth would increase retail sales by £243m in a period of nine weeks. In the Wednesday edition of the newspaper economics…

Republic has said that its participation in two BBC News programmes on the Windsor birth were “vetoed” yesterday. It said that this was a part of the marginalisation or suppression of republican opinion. Another example of this marginalisation came in the form of a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg that the birth had…

MPs on the Public Accounts Committee failed to bring Charles Windsor to account last week when they questioned his business managers about the exemption of the Duchy of Cornwall from corporation tax. The Duchy is a public body from which Windsor is allowed to take the income, amounting to about £19m last year. William Nye,…

Severance payments to BBC senior managers caused “shock and dismay” at the trust that oversees the state media giant according to its chairperson Chris Patten, giving evidence to MPs on the public accounts committee. The BBC, which which supports monarchy, paid £25m in severance to 250 managers in the three years to December 2012. In…

Monarchist Lie Allowed The High Court has given its backing to feudal privilege by ruling that evidence of Charles Windsor’s undermining of democratic rights should be kept secret. However, in doing so the judges confirmed that the British monarchy does interfere in government, contrary to the claims of its defenders. The court overruled an Information…

Financial Times Licks Windsor Arse The ability of Britain’s feudal monarchy to stop intelligent thought has been demonstrated again by the normally hard-headed Financial Times. In a report on the installation of screw water turbines in an energy scheme for the Windsor’ castle in Berkshire, reporter Pilita Clark gushed about the “frugality” of queen Windsor…

But Windsor Looting Set to Continue The financial privileges of the Windsor clan came under unusual attack this Monday in a Channel 4 Despatches report. The program focused on the tax-exempt status of the Duchy of Cornwall, which gives Charles Windsor around £12m in spending money every year. It also reported criticism of the Duchy…

Five Per Cent Increase While Public Pay Cut The day after the government declared that public sector pay should be reduced again, it increased the public handout to the Windsor clan by 5.2%. The pay rise followed a 5.2% increase in the profits of the “Crown Estate”, a vast public property holding. Since 2012 the…