News from the Centre for Citizenship

According to a report in the Financial Times “questions over multi-million dollar payments to Lord Black and other Hollinger (newspaper) executives – totalling just under $300m – are likely to signal the end of the maverick publisher’s attempts to become one of the world’s most influential newspaper proprietors.” Former Canadian Conrad Black is a Lord…

In one of the more telling incidents in the brouhaha surrounding the suppression of news reports concerning Charles Windsor and his former chief of staff, Trevor Phillips, chairperson of the Commission for Racial Equality, has appeared on Channel Four’s 7 o’clock news to defend the futile attempts to stop publication. Labour Party member Mr. Phillips,…

Six out of twelve of the so-called Law Lords have opposed the separation of Britain’s supreme court of appeal from the legislature. In their response to government proposals for an independent supreme court the six unelected legislators complain that they will not be able to advise other legislators if they do not sit in the…

The Returned and Services League of Australia Limited (RSL) has been found to be discriminating against republicans by refusing membership to applicants who will not swear allegiance to Liz Windsor, Britain’s hereditary head of state. The Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal found that Donald Buchanan, who had been refused membership of the veterans’ league, had been discriminated…

Nigel Farage, UK Independence Party member of the European Parliament, has urged that queen Windsor dissolve Britain’s parliament to prevent British approval of a proposed new constitution for the European Union. An alternative suggestion from Mr. Farage was that Windsor refuse to sign legislation approving the new constitution, according to the Sun newspaper. Constitutional historian…

Immigration is to be made easy for the foreign wife-to-be of Denmark’s so called Prince Frederick. Parliament will be pass a law to make his Australian girlfriend a citizen and taxpayers money will ensure that she does not have to demonstrate financial self-sufficiency. Immigrants usually have to wait as long as nine years and prove…

The Liberal Democratic Party at its annual conference has voted down a motion calling for a referendum on the right of the people to choose their own head of state. Party leader Charles Kennedy had opposed the motion on the grounds that other issues were more urgent. Some speakers at the conference said that opposition…

The constitutional affairs secretary has announced that the government will propose legislation to remove the remaining 92 hereditary legislators from Parliament. New legislators-for-life will continue to be appointed however, under the supervision of a statutory commission. The conservative party leader in the House of Lords threatened a “major fight” against the reform. Legislators-for-life from other…

Jamaican prime minister P J Patterson has called for his country to become a republic within the next few years. Currently Jamaica recognises` British queen Elizabeth Windsor as its head of state. Mr. Patterson was speaking at a conference of his People’s National Party. The opposition Labour Party also supports the reform of Jamaica’s constitution…