Articles tagged "UK"

Another 'Brexit Benefit' - UK Beet Growers Fear Brexit Threatens their Future

They produce half the country’s sugar needs, but expect new trade deals to make their tough situation worse

Unethical Migrant Website Set up by UK Home Office

Site offering supposedly independent advice is part of a £23,000 government social media campaign

Anger as Boris Johnson ‘Won’t Self-isolate Despite Aide Testing Positive for Covid’

Boris Johnson won’t self-isolate despite a member of his team testing positive for Covid-19

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

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