News from the Centre for Citizenship
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New Image for BBC Extortion Racket
Britain’s state broadcaster is looking at a new logo and name for its enforcement branch, TV Licensing, according to the Sunday Telegraph. Mediawatch-UK told the newspaper that the revamp was a waste of money. Broadcaster Esther Rantzen agreed. She suggested that the media giant might “do a variation of ‘It Could Be You’ (a national…
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Republican Soldier Loses Conscience Case
The Canadian Federal Court has ruled that that country’s armed forces are free to humiliate republican soldiers by forcing them to show deference to the Windsor family. Soldiers who do not drink a toast to the British hereditary head of state or sing “God Save the Queen” may face a seven year sentence for disloyalty.…
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Constitution Discrimination Must Stop, Says Legislator
The revelation that former Prime Minister Tony Blair has converted to Catholicism and that the Catholic Church has more weekly worshippers than the state Anglican Church has brought increased hope for democratic reform in Britain. Both the Times and The Financial Times have suggested that this may lead to reform of the Act of Settlement,…
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BBC Again Accused of Monarchist Bias
The Republic group says that it will be lodging a formal complaint against the BBC about its five-part documentary “Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work”. Spokesperson Graham Smith said: “The BBC’s documentary was biased, deferential and unquestioning. Throughout the programme the royals were portrayed in a flattering light and ‘facts’ were relayed without question or…
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Nepal To Be Free Of Monarchy
The government of Nepal has agreed that the country’s monarchy should be abolished after the next election. The decision to bring an end to the feudal institution followed the withdrawal from the government of Maoist former rebels who wanted an immediate republic.
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British Legislator To Do American Time
British legislator Conrad Black will be spending six and a half years in a federal prison in Florida following his conviction in a multi-million-dollar fraud trial. Black, who goes by the title of “Lord Black of Crossharbour”, was appointed in 2001 as a legislator-for-life in the British parliament. The former newspaper owner gave up his…
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International Threats To British Monarchy
Liz Windsor, Britain’s hereditary head of state, has “made clear” that “Australians must decide for themselves” whether their country should become a republic. The generous concession to the democratic rights of the people of Australia was reported in an editorial in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, a strong supporter of feudalism, following the Labour Party success…
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New Hope For Australian Republic
Australians will have another chance to vote on whether to become a republic as a result of the Labour Party gaining a 22-seat majority in the general election. New Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised a referendum. Australia shares an hereditary head of state with Britain. In the 1999 referendum Australians voted 55 to 45…
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Her Majesty’s Government Defends Her Majesty’s Tax Break
Britain is resisting a European Commission plan that would reduce the £500,000 paid in farm subsidies to hereditary head of state Elizabeth Windsor. The Commission wants to slash subsidies from taxpayers to the owners of big farms in order to rebut claims that the Common Agriculture Policy favours the rich. But a spokesperson for the…
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Fine for Insult To “Prince”
Two Spanish cartoonists have been fined £2000 each on a charge of insulting Felipe Bourbon, who is heir to the office of head of state. The charge arose from a law intended to boost the birth rate by paying cash to families for adopting or giving birth to a child. Guillermo Torres and Manel Fontevilla…