Articles tagged "United Kingdom"
UK's Investigative Journalism Finds Itself Heading Towards ‘Authoritarian Police State’
Proposed changes to the Official Secrets Act by the Home Office would see investigative journalists threatened with up to 14 years in prison for ‘unauthorised disclosures’
I Called Out the Prime Minister for Lying & Got Thrown Out of Parliament
Boris Johnson has lied to the country & to the House of Commons repeatedly for years
Sage Adviser - Ministers Trying to Get as Many as Possible Infected With Covid
Ministers & Boris Johnson accused of allowing infections to rip through the younger population in an effort to bolster levels of immunity
Boris Johnson Said He Was Not Prepared to Lock Down the Country to Save People in Their 80s
Cummings - Johnson held out on reimposing Covid restrictions because “the people who are dying are essentially all over 80.”
The UK Government's Death Of Convention; Rule of Law
How Boris Johnson has used the vagueness and vulnerability of Britain’s unwritten constitution to erode democracy
The Moral Vacuum of English Politics is a Replica of Trump’s America
Britain's death of the gentlemen's agreement. Truth, decency & democracy have little currency in Boris Johnson’s rump Trumpocracy
Boris Johnson Misled MPs Over Unusable PPE
The Government’s most senior Health official has contradicted the Prime Minister’s claims [Boris Johnson lied to MPs]
UK Facing Summer of Food Shortages Due to Brexit & Lack of Lorry Drivers
Tory incompetence will inflict a summer of food shortages likened to a series of “rolling power cuts” because of a loss of 100,000 lorry drivers due to Covid & Brexit
Some of Today’s Politicians have Learned Propaganda Tricks from 1930s Fascists, says Yale professor
Democracy is a fragile creation, and the Yale professor and historian of fascism Timothy Snyder should know
The UK’s Misrule Based on International Disorder
‘Talk over action’ is, in many ways, a fair summary of Boris Johnson’s premiership
Boris Johnson & the Rise of Make-Believe
It is no good offering people a ‘story to believe in’ if it ends in harm – but the Prime Minister does not know any other way
Is the UK sleepwalking into authoritarian rule?
Jeremy Cushing on how the government is attacking and undermining the institutions of democracy, Blaine Stothard on ministers’ demands for total conformity of beliefs and values, & Pat Farrington on the Tories’ cynical attempts to keep hold of power