Comment & Analysis

Republic has long held the view that the Lords should be replaced by a wholly elected upper house. With Lords reform likely to be back on the political agenda by the end of the [read more]

We held the 2010 Annual Conference on Saturday. Here’s what I said in my opening remarks:

The theme of this conference is a message to progressives and reformers, to all those who complain about the [read more]

There’s a lot of constitutional change on the way, and as we’ve seen over the past 24 hours there’s going to be a lot of debate about how best we can make our system of [read more]

We live under a government that seems to have a very schizophrenic attitude towards reform.

On the one hand, the government appears to be reforming things all the time. It is continually overhauling the education system [read more]

So many people come on this blog and try to denounce our arguments by saying things along the lines of “it doesn’t matter,” “there are more important issues,” “people don’t want more elections.”

In a classic piece of doublespeak that would have made George Orwell proud our government has stated that secrecy is required to ensure the impartiality of the head of state.

Britain is a constitutional monarchy.

That may seem obvious to readers of this blog but we rarely question what that actually means. We’re not a de facto republic as some claim. Neither are the royals just [read more]