Articles tagged "Britain"
Ukraine Daily Summary - Thursday, October 10 2024
Battlefield situation calls for decisive action to end war in 2025 -- Lithuania blocks and fortifies bridge to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave -- Ukraine hits Russian base storing Shahed drones in Krasnodar Krai -- Opinion: The West cannot use its values to make sense of Russia -- and more
Ukraine Daily Summary - Friday, August 23 2024
Ukraine launches counterattack in Kharkiv Oblast, advancing 2 square km -- Ukraine hits fuel and bomb warehouses in Russia's Volgograd region airfield -- Rostov Oblast oil depot fire ongoing for 5th day, Russian officials report -- Germany reportedly investigating 'espionage' drone flights over critical infrastructure -- and more
In Plain Sight, Boris Johnson is Rigging the System to Stay in Power
Weakening the courts, limiting protest, hobbling the elections regulator. If another country did this, what would we call it?
UK’s High Covid Case Rates Buck Trend
Higher vaccination rates are translating to lower Covid infection and death rates in western Europe – except in the UK where case numbers are surging
UK - Tories Indicate Turn Away from Democracy and to Authoritarianism.
Tory MP says Teachers Should be “Sacked” if They Criticise the Conservatives Party in the United Kingdom
EU Must be Ready to Send Aid to Brexit Britain, Says Former PM of Finland
Brussels should offer basic goods to help as Brexit bites, even though it is all Britain's fault
Boris Johnson's Tory Conference Speech ‘Economically Illiterate’
Business leaders rounded on Boris Johnson for lacking a coherent economic plan after he delivered a boosterish conference speech that made barely a mention of the supply chain crisis.
Johnsonian Policy - The Lord of Misrule
Looking at the United Kingdom's gradual, cumulative decline until disruption to everyday life becomes too endemic to avoid
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
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