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As an expert in the contemporary British monarchy, I watched the first three episodes of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan, closely.
What came across most was how Meghan’s gender, race and class intersected in her treatment both by the media and by “the (...)
Dave Kellaway reflects on the queue you can even see from space(!)
Today it appears that everyone in Britain is either in the Queue, going down to the Queue, looking at the Queue on live streaming or commenting on it. Social media is full of gentle and not so gentle humour and memes about the (...)
Simon Pearson reflects on the farce of monarchy.
Were it to occur elsewhere in the world, we can all imagine the snobbish response to the widespread hysteria witnessed as Queen Elizabeth II lies in state. The abundance of idolatry on display would be the subject of articles in the right-wing (...)
It is only proper that the new King pays no inheritance tax – says the state that makes citizens choose between heating or eating
During that soggy afternoon when the Queen was still said to be only ill, the BBC’s Clive Myrie was filling time. Only hours before, he noted, Liz Truss had been (...)
Series of incidents in Edinburgh, London and Oxford include woman being charged after a protest outside St Giles’ Cathedral
Civil liberties campaigners and others have expressed alarm about the response of police to anti-monarchy protesters after a number of incidents, the latest of which (...)
So long as she reigned, the establishment was able to gloss over the horrors of empire. Now is a time for painful truths
his will be remembered as a watershed moment in British history for two reasons. First, for the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Second, for what happened next: the voices of (...)
Since the Queen’s death, support for ending the monarchy and a desire to debate its relevance have both grown stronger
For Matthew, the Queen’s death is double edged: “There’s cause for celebration in the sense that it might kickstart the end of the monarchy – but it’s frustrating because I daren’t (...)
American commentators, academics and others are calling into reconsideration of monarchy’s lasting influences
The death of Queen Elizabeth II revived longstanding criticism in the US over the monarchy’s enrichment from the British empire’s violent colonization of African, Asian and Caribbean (...)
Dave Kellaway writes on the passing of the Queen and why socialists should oppose the monarchy.
Anyone who thinks the monarchy is a secondary or peripheral issue for socialists today should just listen, talk and look at people around them and on the media over the next week or so. Yes, the (...)
The death of Queen Elizabeth II, writes Simon Hannah, led to an inevitable orgy of reaction.
The public response is completely dominated and dictated by pro-monarchists and right-wing nationalists who demand complete silence on any critical comments or views about the British political system. (...)
Dave Kellaway looks at the ideological system behind the Jubilee jamboree.
We make sense of our lives through the stories we tell ourselves and each other. The dominant ideology functions through the way it occupies or frames those stories. Since we live in an unequal society driven by a (...)
Neil Faulkner of Anti*Capitalist Resistance reviews ’The Crown’ a Netflix series.
The death of Prince Philip has evoked a mainstream British media response revolting in its obsequiousness and serial lying even by its own pitifully low standards. From The Daily Mail to The Guardian, we have had (...)
Anti*Capitalist Resistance royal correspondent, Dave Kellaway updates us on the latest Royal story.
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1 – The cover up is always worse for you than the original wrongdoing
In politics, as in life, it’s the cover-up that does for you. President Nixon had to go not because of the (...)
A*C.R activists report on the launch of a new movement that could shake the Johnson regime and Labour’s cosy endorsement.The meeting was massive. Only organisations were invited, but there were more than 150 activists on the call, representing a wide range of the 100+ grassroots campaign groups (...)
Following my previous article about Prince Philip writes Dave Kellaway, I was lambasted by someone for being too journalistic in response to events and not providing a serious enough left analysis. That article was never meant to perform that role.
This piece on the other hand will discuss (...)
The Duke of Edinburgh may have been a man of his time, yet the royal family cannot be separated from the history of empire.
Within minutes of Prince Philip’s death having been announced, I began receiving messages from friends in Ghana. “My sincere condolences for your loss,” one said. “May God (...)
The biggest achievement of the Duke’s life is that he leaves the British monarchy looking considerably more secure than he found it.
A great deal has changed since Prince Philip married the then Princess Elizabeth in 1947, but the most revealing shift concerns the Labour Party, whose (...)
From Dave Kellaway, the Anti*Capitalist Resistance Royal correspondent somewhere near Buckingham Palace.
For weeks the ranks of the mainstream mass media have been beavering away honing their comment pieces, assessing thousands of archive photos and looking at their contact list of royal (...)
Dave Kellaway sits down with a cup of tea to watch the latest Royal saga play out in the Press.
“Meghan said that, when she was pregnant with Archie, an unnamed member of the royal family had raised “concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born”. Asked whether there (...)
The royal family have barely been seen during the pandemic. It’s in keeping with their 21st-century introversion.
For any monarchy that wants to be central to national life, presence is important. In the media, in popular culture, at public events and in the minds of its subjects, the (...)
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