Constitutional monarchists come from across the political spectrum. This was confirmed to me during the 1999 referendum campaign when I was chairing a strategy meeting in a certain state. One of the ten person...
The Greek republic has shown itself impotent in the face of the expression of rage which followed the shooting of a Greek youth by police on 6 December. Lawyers for the police say the...
The scandal about the alleged sale of President-elect Obama’s senate seat by the state governor is inconceivable in Australia. Australian governors are appointed by the Sovereign on the recommendation of the premier. They are...
It would have been unjust for the Minister of Finance Lindsay Tanner not to have waived the tax surcharge of $ 190,000 on the former Governor–General, Major General Jeffery. It is extraordinary that the Opposition...
"'Why,' the Queen asked recently, 'did nobody notice?' She was talking about the credit crunch and the pertinent question wrong-footed academics at the London School of Economics, who were presumably expecting chit-chat rather than...
Could anything be worse than the Tourist Commission’s appalling campaign,“Where the bloody hell are you?” The Australian Sports Commission has now decided to do worse and trawl the depths in tasteless, internationally embarrassing taxpayer...
Never ever stand between royalty, even minor European royalty, and republicans. If you do, you risk being knocked over in the rush. Perhaps similar sentiments can be expressed about titles. “Given her leftist leanings...
The current session of the Canadian Parliament has come to an end. The session was prorogued by a Royal Proclamation, in both the English and French languages, made under...
Canada's Governor General, Madame Michaelle Jean, has cut short a trip to Europe to deal with a growing political crisis under the reserve powers of the Canadian Crown. The Crown provides leadership above politics;...
The decision by Thailand’s Constitutional Court against the ruling party has effectively dismissed the Prime Minister, Somchai Wongsawat. He is the brother-in-law and probably the surrogate of Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled billionaire former prime...
