{"id":90242,"date":"2026-02-19T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90242"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:54:38","slug":"time-to-end-the-house-of-windsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/19\/time-to-end-the-house-of-windsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to end the House of Windsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph has reported, not very long ago:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.21.25-550x246.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.21.25-550x246.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.21.25-768x344.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.21.25-600x269.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.21.25.png 1452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And as I posted those words, I noticed this from the BBC:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.26.11-550x116.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.26.11-550x116.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.26.11-768x162.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.26.11-600x127.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-10.26.11.png 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The time has come to pull the whole, rotten, eugenically justified edifice of royal privilege down and replace it with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A constitution<\/li>\n<li>An end to monarchy<\/li>\n<li>An end to the honours system<\/li>\n<li>An elected head of state<\/li>\n<li>An elected, regionally representative Senate<\/li>\n<li>A House of Commons elected by proportional representation<\/li>\n<li>State-funded political parties<\/li>\n<li>A ban on corporate donations to any party and strict donation limits from individuals<\/li>\n<li>Proper regulation of think tanks and lobbyists<\/li>\n<li>Proper controls on the media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph has reported, not very long ago: And as I posted those words, I noticed this from the BBC: The time has come to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/02\/19\/time-to-end-the-house-of-windsor\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90247,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90242\/revisions\/90247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}