News from the Centre for Citizenship
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BBC Defends Feudal Privileges
Michael Lyons, who chairs the BBC Trust, has declared in an interview with The Financial Times that the state broadcaster should not be subject to democratic controls. According to the newspaper he reminded “the government and opposition parties . . . that he and the other trustees were appointed by the Queen, through the Privy…
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Expenses Fury Masks Feudal Privileges
Head of state Elizabeth Windsor is reported to be “concerned” about the constitutional implications of the MPs’ expenses scandal. However, the constitution will allow voters to remove the MPs who have been shamed at the general election in 2010. There is no such easy way of punishing the Windsor family who make the legislators look…
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Architects Fight Back Against Windsor
A group of British architects has called for a boycott of a lecture by Charles Windsor who is due to become Britain’s head of state when his mother dies. Mr. Windsor will give the lecture at the Royal Institute of Architects on Tuesday. The nine architects called for a boycott in a letter to the…
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Australia: Senate Considers Republic Vote
In Australia the Senate has held a public hearing on a bill providing for a plebiscite on whether Australia should cut its ties with Britain’s feudal institution. The committee, which is due to report in June, has considered 246 written submissions and has heard nine witnesses. A bill requiring a plebiscite was referred to the…
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New Zealand: Not Yet Ready For Republic?
An New Zealand republican movement opinion poll shows that a majority 45% of citizens are willing for Charles Windsor to become their head of state when his mother dies. Another 43% want their country to become a republic. Support for the feudal system of appointing the head of state is down from 48% in December…
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Feudal System May Fall Into Disrepute Says Labour MP
British legislators are demonstrating that Britain may be the only developed nation in which it is believed that feudalism is worth defending. MP Gordon Prentice has told the head of the civil service that the “honours system”, under which the state awards feudal titles, will fall into disrepute if Fred Goodwin, former chief executive of…
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Royal Mail To Honour Feudal Rulers
The Royal Mail is to be true to its name by marking the bicentennial year of British and American republican Thomas Paine with the issue of postage stamps honouring 16th century monarchs. The state mail service will issue 6 new stamps commemorating Tudor dynasty members who ruled England from the late 15th to early 17th…
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State Broadcaster Defames Republicans
BBC TV News reported on Friday that “a leading republican” had been arrested on a charge of murdering soldiers in Northern Ireland. In fact the arrested man, Colin Duffy, is not known to be a member of any of the main republican organisations in the UK. He has, however, been associated with a small group…
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British Support Equal Opps for Windsors, Not For Selves
A BBC opinion poll has indicated that 89% of Britons want an end to discrimination against female members of the Windsor family, which has the exclusive right to provide the head of state under Britain’s feudal constitution. Nineteen percent favour continued discriminations against Catholics and seventy-six per cent believed that the majority of citizens should…
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Research Project May Speed New Zealand Republic
The government of New Zealand is to sponsor a research project into the role of its hereditary head of state, who it shares with Britain and some former British colonies. Two constitutional lawyers will spend three years looking at the country’s constitution. A Cabinet Officer legal researcher will work with them. Former governor-general Cath Tizard…