Her Majesty the Queen’s 80th Birthday Card Signatories
ACM is gathering as many signatures from supporters as we possibly can to be forwarded as one big birthday card book to Her Majesty the Queen. This card will be sent after the last...
Ramses II and the republicans
The scenes were extraordinary. The massive statue of Ramses II moved slowly through the streets of Cairo to his new home near the...
History and the ABC
Most adult Australians have been horrified by reports that history is not being adequately taught in all of our schools. A reader tells us that the ABC National News on the weekend of 17...
Former republican with egg on his face
According to an interview by Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian 23 September, 2006, the formerly republican writer and broadcaster, Jeremy Paxman has now become a reluctant constitutional monarchist, saying: "If I was devising...
Just as we expected
Just as we expected. Stephen Frears, the director of the film “The Queen”, has described the monarchy as idiotic. As we have previously wrote in this column on 4 September, 2006, this film is...
Everything is OK: we have a King
A chicken vendor in Bangkok said of the coup: It’s just the news. Tomorrow everything will be back to normal....
The perils of presidentialism
In an essay in The New York Times on 16 July, 2006, ‘The Time of the Presidents’, Gary Rosen asks an interesting question. Were he still around, what would Tsar Peter the Great think...
A Czech King?
Czech President Vaclav Havel’s sister in law, Dagmar Havlova, not to be mistaken for the First Lady, who is also Dagmar, has come out with a rather surprising announcement. She would like the Czech...
Shah or president?
If you go to the website of the late Shah of Iran’s son and heir, Reza Pahlavi, you will find a fascinating interview on the BBC on 5 May, 2006. He comes...
Bring back the Oath of Allegiance
“In 1986, on the recommendation of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission, the requirement for new citizens to renounce all other allegiance was abolished. In addition, they no longer had to state their...
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