It was reported by the BBC yesterday that Prince and Princess Michael of Kent are to start paying rent on their luxury Kensington Palace apartment from 2010. This raises a number of questions [read more]
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Speculation on the weekend that the Queen plans to scale back her official duties as she gets older raises an important point about the role of our head of state.
One of the more bizarre arguments against republicanism is “why bother, the monarchy will eventually just fade away and die out”. It is bizarre on two points. Firstly, it implies the person in [read more]
As Australia edges toward a full-blown debate about becoming a republic some interesting arguments have been resurfacing about how to write a new republican constitution.
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You have to wonder sometimes if the Windsor family just don’t care about public perception or are simply unaware of what is going on around them.
In the middle of a major international financial crisis we [read more]
Labour’s plans to reform the Act of Settlement have got people thinking about the monarchy in terms of human rights, and that can only be a good thing for republicans.
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I gave a talk at a school the other day and, unsurprisingly, someone came out with the line: “the Queen does a good job, why get rid of her?” Ignoring the fact that the [read more]
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