FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT FOR AN AGREEMENT OF THE PEOPLE FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND The Coronation and the Commonwealth of England | Charles Windsor is automatically the head of state under...
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The Crown and slavery: a democratic republican reading of the Guardian series
The Crown and slavery: a democratic republican reading of the Guardian series | King Charles urged to ‘take some responsibility’ for royal slavery links | King Charles III | The Guardian | My main...
70 Years of Failure: the death of the queen and current shortcomings of republican campaigning
70 Years of Failure: the death of the queen and current shortcomings of republican campaigning | The Queen’s death has been marked by an outpouring of public grieving on a scale not seen since...
Scotland’s Travails and England’s Woes
Scotland’s Travails and England’s Woes | The demise of Nicola Sturgeon was the latest twist in the political game between England and Scotland. The arrest of Peter Murrell, the former SNP chief executive and Sturgeon’s husband was a dramatic moment to awaken the...
The Coronation and the Commonwealth of England
FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT FOR AN AGREEMENT OF THE PEOPLE FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND The Coronation and the Commonwealth of England | Charles Windsor is automatically the head of state under the hereditary ‘principles’ imposed by the 1066 Norman Conquest. William...
The Crown and slavery: a democratic republican reading of the Guardian series
The Crown and slavery: a democratic republican reading of the Guardian series | King Charles urged to ‘take some responsibility’ for royal slavery links | King Charles III | The Guardian | My main reservation regarding the recent Guardian ‘Crown and Slavery’ series of...
70 Years of Failure: the death of the queen and current shortcomings of republican campaigning
70 Years of Failure: the death of the queen and current shortcomings of republican campaigning | The Queen’s death has been marked by an outpouring of public grieving on a scale not seen since Princess Diana was killed in a car crash a quarter of a century ago. What...
A Jubilee or a mask for anarchy?
A Jubilee or a mask for anarchy? Republicanism has generally had a bad press. Monarchists have either successfully associated it with bloody, revolutionary violence or whenever events like the Jubilee occur, dismissed it as party-pooping, straight-laced, puritanical,...
Labour Left Alliance – social monarchism or republicanism?
Labour Left Alliance - social monarchism or republicanism? Republicanism in the Labour Party is the ‘dog that doesn’t bark’ argues Kenneth Morgan, with reference to Sherlock Holmes who deduced from the absence of a fact who...
Being a Republican Means More
Being A Republican Means More Than Being Anti-Monarchist | Betty Windsor's extended 90th birthday celebrations have led some socialists to proclaim their anti-monarchist credentials. Criticism is usually focused on the antiquated class structure, which the monarchy...