News from the Centre for Citizenship

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…

Republic, the British campaign against monarchy, has confirmed that Britain’s feudal head of state arrangements cost much more than claimed by defenders of the undemocratic institution. A report published last week says the true cost of this system of hereditary privilege to the people of Britain is £202.4m a year, not the £40m claimed by…

Community Event Hijacked The Big Lunch, an effort to get neighbours socialising, is to be politicised in 2012 to help the Windsor clan hold on to its feudal privileges. The annual event is to be renamed the “Big Jubilee Sunday Lunch” and will be included in a programme of events to mark the sixtieth year…

The Australian new site Perth Now has revealed that Australian police are spying on republicans ahead of a Windsor family visit to that country in October. State security police drove 270km to question republican Mark Tomkinson after he joked on his blog about dropping green paint on Kate Middleton when she married a leading Windsor…

Prince Philip appointment shows severe lack of judgment Toronto, June 11, 2011 – Citizens for a Canadian Republic is breaking its longstanding policy of avoiding criticism of the British royals by expressing its shock and bewilderment at Prime Minister Harper’s decision to appoint Prince Philip as an honorary admiral and general in the Canadian Armed…

If there was any doubt that the Labour Party supports hereditary privilege it has been eliminated by a revelation about the artistic preferences of Peter Mandleson, a senior minister in the last government. According to reports of an exhibition of works of art purchased by the state, Mandleson’s choices for decorating his offices while business…