News from the Centre for Citizenship

The Girl Guides of Australia no longer require members to pledge allegiance to Elizabeth Windsor, Britain’s feudal head of state. The 29,000-member organisation consulted widely before ending the pledge. The Australian Republican Movement said that the change was a step towards that country becoming a republic. In Britain republicans are barred from Parliament, the judiciary…

Ampon Tangnoppakul has died while serving a twenty-year sentence for insulting the Thai “royal” family. Mr. Ampon was sentenced for sending SMS messages that were alleged to have violated the law that forbids free speech deemed insulting to the feudal rulers of Thailand. Hundreds of Thai citizens protested following the death, demanding an end to…

Leanne Wood, the new leader of Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales), is boycotting a service at Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff that is part of a tour of Wales by Britain’s hereditary head of state to celebrate her sixty years of extraordinary and unwarranted privilege. Ms. Wood, a member of the Welsh legislature, said that: “As a…

The organiser of an event to celebrate Liz Windsor’s sixtieth year of egregious privilege has complained about lack of financial support from business. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil said he was having an “uphill struggle” to raise £10.5m for a show on the River Thames. The legislator threatened to “name and shame” businesses that were not showing support…

The town of Berga in Spain has set an example of self-respecting citizenship by declaring the “King of Spain” persona non grata. The town’s council passed the motion following unusually severe criticism of the feudal relic for going on an expensive holiday paid for by a Syrian business person with ties to the Saudi Arabia…

Juan Carlos Borbón, head of the Spanish Borbón clan and known as the king of that country, has apologised to the people of Spain for his elephant-hunting trip to Africa. Mr. Borbón had been widely criticised for the visit after he had claimed that the hard times faced by the Spanish people were keeping him…

Only Subjects Fit for Bank of England Canadian Mark Carney is eligible for consideration for the job of Governor of the Bank of England because he “is a subject of the Queen” according to one insider quoted in the Financial Times. “That is important” said the feudalist. The comment may suggest that republicans would be…

Windsors Keep Theirs Under Wraps Liz Windsor’s astuteness in using public decorum as a device to protect her family’s extraordinary privileges has been put in relief by events in Spain. Popular support for that country’s monarchy fell recently after the revelation that hereditary head of state Juan Carlos Borbón had been hunting elephants in Africa…

Parliamentary Committee Supports Unelected Legislators The writer of a popular TV soap would lose his seat if the people were allowed to elect the legislators in what is now called the House of Lords. That example of the horrible effects of democracy is taken from a Sunday Telegraph report on a new parliamentary committee’s report…

The Washington Post has reported that censors in Thailand have banned a movie adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth because it “has content that causes divisiveness among the people of the nation.” According to the film’s director the censors did not like anti-monarchy overtones or what they saw as political content. The newspaper said that the Thai…