Articles tagged "UK"

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

What Happens Now?

UK government ministers broke the law. Why no consequences for the government's unlawful behaviour?

Peerage, Barron Cruddas & 3/4 of a Million Pounds Donated to the Conservative Party

He was crowned, or whatever happens to them, ‘Baron’ Cruddas on 2 February 2021 and a few days later, on 5 February 2021, he gave the Tories another half a million

Another of Boris Johnson's Cabinet Members Have Broken the Law as Found by the High Court

Two Cabinet Ministers – Michael Gove and Matt Hancock – have now been found to have broken the law

UK Government staff told to call UK 'one country' & avoid talk of 'four nations'

Boris Johnson & Tories now running scared as evidenced by the fact they are attempting to ignore and rewrite the reality UK consists of four, seperate nations