News from the Centre for Citizenship

The Bishop of Buckingham, a Church of England official, has criticised officials at his church’s St. Paul’s Cathedral for their attitude towards the “Occupy London” protesters who have camped outside. The Bishop asked in a blog “Do they have the stomach to engage in the real world at the crest of a tidal race between…

If your home is broken into the British Prime Minister and his counterparts in 15 former colonies will worry about whether the burglars divide their takings equitably. They will not give a damn about your losses. That, at least, seems to be what can be concluded from the decision of those countries that share Britain’s…

Julia Gillard, the Prime Minister of Australia, has been criticised by monarchists for not curtsying to Britain’s feudal head of state, Elizabeth Windsor. Earlier this year Irish President Mary McAleese showed that she has more respect for the Irish people she represents than for feudal rulers by also refusing to demean herself for Windsor’s benefit.…

Prime Minister David Cameron has written to 15 nations that have the same head of state as the UK asking them to support an end to gender discrimination against female members of the Windsor family. At present male Windsors have precedence over their sisters when a new head of state is needed. In general members…

Members of the feudal House of Lords last week failed to block government plans to reform the National Health Service. Some of the unelected legislators had hoped to have the reforms referred to a committee of “lords” and MPs, which the government feared would effectively sabotage its plans for the NHS. The reforms are the…

The public holiday for the Windsor/Middleton wedding, together with the effects of the Japanese earthquake, knocked 0.5 per cent off the growth in the economy in the first quarter, according to the Financial Times. The wedding day was declared a public holiday in a move by the Windsor clan and its supporters to boost support…

Charles Windsor, who is to be Britain’s next hereditary head of state is a “snake-oil salesman” according medical expert Edzard Ernst. The professor was referring to Mr. Windsor’s support for alternative medicine. Professor Ernst also described “herbal detox tinctures” sold under Windsor’s “Duchy Originals” brand as “Dodgy Originals”. Such outspoken public criticism of a member…

Resigning as Metropolitan Police Commissioner as a result of the New of the World scandal, Paul Stephenson cited the recent Middleton/Windsor wedding as an example of outstanding policing. “You have seen the Met at its glorious and unobtrusive best on the occasion of the wedding” he said. Prior to the wedding one of Mr. Stephenson’s…

One of the new titles given to William Windsor when he married Kate Middleton was Baron Carrickfergus. This was considered an offensive title  by some Irish people who knew that the town of Carrickfergus was where King William III of England began his Protestant conquest of Ireland in 1689. Britain also used an historic castle…