Faversham Stoa is a philosophy discussion group meeting on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from 7.30 to 9.30pm in the Monarchy
The two main republican organisations in the UK today are:
- Republic
- Campaign for an elected head of state
- Centre for Citizenship
- This group also campaigns or reform of the House of Lords and and ending to the establishment of the Church of England
Some articles on Republicanism and the Monarchy discussion:
- Arguments for Republicanism
- If you don't read anything else at least read this as it summarises the arguments
- Pros and Cons of Republicanism
- This article is a also a good summary of the arguments
- Repubicanism in the UK
- The history of Republicanism
- The Labour Party and British Republicanism
- The strange relationship of the British Labour movement with republicanism
- Charles as President? Not in my name!
- Article from The Independent by Jonathan Hari. It's amazingly rude about our monarch-in-waiting. Compare it with Muggeridge's article of 50 years ago. Hari would never have got away with it then.
- Richard Dawkin's reply to Hari's article
- Royal Soap Opera
- Malcolm Muggeride's 1955 article – so tame by today's standards.
- Does England really need a Queen?
- Another article by Malcolm Muggeridge, published in a US magazine in 1957, which caused a lot of offence leading to hate mail and attacks in the street upon the author.
