http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ From feudalism to democracy en-us mail@centreforcitizenship.org 2008-09-26T18:19:46+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000251.html Church of England leaders have been accused of hypocrisy for attacks on city traders. According to the Financial Times the state church commissioners "lend foreign stock from their £5.5bn of investments - an essential support for short-selling". The newspaper also... 251@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-09-26T18:19:46+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000250.html Female and Catholic members of the Windsor family will be protected from gemder amd religious discrimination if government proposals becomes law. According to a report in the Guardian newspaper the government intends to ask Parliament to change laws going back... 250@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-09-25T18:05:39+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000249.html Malcolm Turnball has been elected by 45 to 41 votes to lead the Australian Liberal Party. Mr. Turnball chaired the Australian Republican movement in the 1990s. When the referendum on a republic was lost he said that the then Liberal... 249@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-09-18T16:37:07+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000248.html “Many New Zealanders . . . think it inevitable Mr. (John) Key will be the next prime minister” according to the Financial Times. Mr. Key is a republican who has said that it is “inevitable” that his country would... 248@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-09-04T18:40:27+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000247.html The weakness of Britain's democratic culture has been demonstrated by an extraordinary attack on republicans by former cabinet minister Norman Tebbit. The prominent conservative has alleged that MPs who have signed a House of Commons motion to end the requirement... 247@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-09-04T18:39:20+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000246.html Charles Windsor, who is due to become Britain's next hereditary head of state, has told the Daily Telegraph that experiments with genetically modified food are the reason that the world is “facing all these challenges, climate change and everything”. This... 246@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-08-14T18:08:21+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000245.html The BBC Trust's twelve members claimed an average of £1,000 in expenses last year at the expense of TV viewers who are forced to buy a licence to watch TV. Scotland's representative on the Board was the most expensive.... 245@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-07-26T17:46:41+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000244.html The end of feudalism in the British legislature may be delayed again. Justice minister Jack Straw has published the third discussion paper on House of Lords reform in seven years. But if he has his way there will be no... 244@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-07-17T18:30:12+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000243.html “Along with the BBC and the monarchy, the (national health) service has become part of the way in which we define what makes our country special.” So wrote Nicholas Timmins in the Financial Times on 30 June 2008. Mr. Timmins... 243@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-07-01T16:50:21+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000242.html The Barclay brothers have said they will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights after the High Court rejected their claim that state recognition of feudal positions in Sark breaches human rights. New legislation will give Sark, a “crown... 242@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-06-23T18:02:43+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000241.html The Scout Association has threatened to deny full membership of its Cubs to eight-year-old Matthew McVeigh because he refuses to promise allegiance to Britain's feudal head of state, Elizabeth Windsor. Matthew's family is Catholic and Britain's constitution bars Catholics... 241@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-06-16T17:57:38+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000239.html The Caribbean island Bermuda, Britain’s oldest colony, is to celebrate the birthday of hereditary head of state Elizabeth Windsor for the last time this year. The colony’s government, which favours independence from Britain, is to replace the public holiday... 239@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-06-03T18:37:26+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000238.html A Roy Morgan Research opinion poll suggests that 46 per cent of New Zealanders are in favour of their country becoming a republic. Only 41 per cent favoured the current status of monarchy. This percentage fell to 32 when... 238@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-06-03T18:36:56+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000237.html The British government announced on 30 April that there would be no change to the feudal Act of Settlement that favours males for head of state and bars Catholics. In April the government had announced its intention of ending the... 237@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-06-03T18:36:13+00:00 http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/archives/000236.html Thousands danced in the streets of Kathmandu when Nepal’s monarchy was abolished on 28 May. Legislators had voted 560 to 4 to end the 240-year-old evil. King Gyanendra has been given 14 days to vacate his palace and has been... 236@http://www.centreforcitizenship.org/weblogs/news/ 2008-06-02T08:29:56+00:00