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Mick Hume
No Jubilee for republicans
– or royalists
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee throws the spotlight on royalty that is not very regal, and critics who are not really republican.
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| Wednesday 2 November 2011 |
Tim Black
We need elected members, not the Wingnut of Windsor
The revelation that Prince Charles has the power to veto legislation is shocking, but UK democracy in general has fallen into disrepute.
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| Tuesday 17 May 2011 |
Jason Walsh
Ireland needs freedom — but not from Britain
The British queen’s visit has attracted little opposition because Ireland’s new oppressors reside in Brussels, not London.
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| Tuesday 3 May 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Royal wedding: why hate Will’n’Kate?
Friday’s shindig revealed the extent to which the isolated monarchy has thrown its lot in with celebrity culture.
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| Tuesday 26 April 2011 |
Frank Furedi
The culture war behind the Will’n’Kate debate
The wedding has exposed big fault lines within the British elite, with defensive monarchists on one side and snobbish cynics on the other.
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| Tuesday 26 April 2011 |
Mick Hume
It’s not 1981 all over again
There might be more cynicism about this royal wedding than Charles and Diana’s – but what’s good about that?
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| Tuesday 26 April 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
‘I haven’t heard of any parties being planned’
Patrick Hayes talks to residents of one London borough on why they won’t be getting the bunting out on Friday.
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| Thursday 16 December 2010 |
Frank Furedi
Hating Wills’n’Kate: the new conformism
The smart set’s disdain for the royal engagement is driven less by republicanism than by a desire to prove their superiority to the masses.
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| Tuesday 13 July 2010 |
Emily Hill
It’s time to cut this purposeless prince
While the UK tightens its collective belt, why must we put up with Charles, a useless, unelected feudal throwback?
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| Thursday 3 June 2010 |
Rob Lyons
We should cut off more than their handouts
The monarchy should be abolished not because it costs a lot, but because it is a spent, Middle-Ages, anti-democratic institution.
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| Tuesday 5 January 2010 |
David Bowden
‘Some people want to see me beheaded’
Comedian and radio presenter Tom Binns tells spiked how he was sacked for the crime of ‘insulting the monarch’.
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| Monday 30 November 2009 |
Tim Black
Don’t tinker with the monarchy. Abolish it
Gordon Brown is madder than Richard III if he thinks an institution as undemocratic and unequal as the monarchy can be made ‘more fair’.
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| Friday 27 November 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
The barriers to a Republic of Britain
In this piece for a new collection of essays commemorating the death of Thomas Paine, Brendan O’Neill says republicans face two problems today: the elite’s continuing distrust of the electorate, and the electorate’s distrust of itself.
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| Tuesday 20 October 2009 |
Tim Black
Off with their head of state
New Labour’s craven justification for maintaining the Royal Prerogative shows that today’s political class doesn’t trust the people – or itself.
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| Thursday 21 May 2009 |
Vicky Richardson
Why I heckled the Prince of Wales
She’s been branded a ‘naughty girl’ for shouting ‘Abolish the monarchy!’ during Charles’s RIBA lecture. But Vicky Richardson has no regrets.
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| Tuesday 13 January 2009 |
Tim Black
Prince Harry and the thought police
The implication behind the public hounding of ‘racist Harry’ is that all words, even those uttered in private, must be policed and punished.
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| Thursday 29 May 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
A great day for democracy
The abolition of the monarchy in Nepal should put the fear of god – or rather the fear of man – into Britain’s own crumbling House of Windsor.
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| Tuesday 25 April 2006 |
Brendan O’Neill
Nepal: now that’s what I call democratisation
Why are those who bang on about bringing 'people power' to foreign lands so ambivalent about the people demanding power on the streets of Nepal?
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| Wednesday 29 December 2004 |
Brendan O’Neill
‘God save our tolerant Queen…’
The Queen's much-praised Christmas message on tolerance and diversity was an attempt to re-crown the monarch as defender of a new faith
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| Tuesday 4 November 2003 |
Brendan O’Neill
Royale with sleaze
There is more to the House of Windsor's crisis than what the butler saw.
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