Blog Archive

This is the archive for the Republic blog, which ran from 2008 to 2011.

For recent updates check out the Campaign Updates page and join the debate on our Facebook page.

The Campaign Team:

We’re currently reviewing the website with a view to a complete re-design. We want it to focus much more on selling our core messages to the large number of people who currently aren’t persuaded [read more]

The Campaign Team:

On Saturday June 25 Republic will be staging a protest outside Buckingham palace to challenge the continuing scandal of royal spending, despite the Royal Parks agency banning the demo.

Staff at the agency have refused to [read more]

Graham Smith:

What has struck me in the last 24 hours is not the embarrassment of Philip Mountbatten, that’s nothing new of course, but the embarrassment caused by my fellow citizens. Serious people in the media [read more]

The Campaign Team:

On Saturday 25th June we’ll be protesting outside Buckingham palace to highlight the continued waste of public money being spent on the monarchy.

Details of the protest are on the website, it will start at [read more]

The Campaign Team:

After a suggestion from some commenters here that we should have a new FAQ page we thought we’d ask you to suggest points, arguments and facts we could include.

A FAQ, or Frequently Asked Question, should [read more]

Graham Smith:

In another recent post one commenter was suggesting that the cost of becoming a republic would be astronomical because the state would lose the Crown Estate, the palaces and the royal art collection (among other [read more]

The Campaign Team:

Supporters in Wales have been busy since the wedding organising the launch of Republic Wales, a new group within Republic set up to lobby within devolved political and media circles and to build support the [read more]