Using the “republic” in an opinion poll is not of much use unless the republican model is described.  Nor is there much sense in someone saying, often under the pressure of elite fashion,...

Further to the controversial grant of a pardon by President Bush to “Scooter” Libby, it is rumoured there is some arrangement or understanding in the French Republic for a pardon which Jacques Chirac negotiated...

Only two republican models have endured as long as the Westminster system. They are the American and the Swiss, and only if you ignore their nineteenth...

Malcolm Turnbull has been quite consistent in being pessimistic about the chances of Australia becoming a republic, as we reported in this column on 25 July, 2005. On the Channel  9  Sunday programme on...

Indian politicians have just chosen a woman, Pratibha Patil, as President. She succeeds to an office which was planned to be a...

  “It must be one of the screwiest ideas to come out of a nominally intelligent person in quite a while,” writes Graham in  Ambit Gambit: Procreate early, vote often . (Ambit Gambit is...

The timing of Kevin Rudd’s announcement that there would be another republic referendum was indeed curious. As we asked yesterday, was it because some of...