Behind the pageantry of the jubilee lies the seamier side of working to support the monarchy. We’ve all now read about the disgraceful exploitation of unpaid young people on a compulsory work placement being forced to sleep rough in central London by a Tory-supporting ‘charity’. Here, a cleaner in the Royal household talks about the bad […]
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Whatever happened to Labour republicanism?
May 31st, 2012 by David Osler.It’s just a guess on my part, but even today, a significant minority of Labour MPs would perhaps privately profess support for a British republic. Maybe even Ed Miliband, if you caught him alone over a beer, would concede the absurdity of selecting our head of state exclusively from the ranks of a single family […]
