Articles tagged "authoritarian"

Ukraine Daily summary - Thursday, December 12 2024

Russia continues to suffer record losses in December -- Tough battles, lost positions in Pokrovsk demand 'non-standard decisions,' Syrskyi says -- Russian colonialism is not reformable,' says historian Botakoz Kassymbekova -- Russia killed at least 109 Ukrainian POWs in 2024 -- and more

Ukraine Daily Summary - Friday, March 31

April Fools Month: Russia to chair UN Security Council in April -- Tyranny's propagandists are winning -- Russia's FSB conducting 'filtration' in occupied Crimea -- Can Russia afford to commit to a years-long war? -- Bakhmut is 'slaughter-fest for Russians,' says top US general -- and more

Another Country - Not the One I Represented as a Diplomat for 30 Years

Alexandra Hall Hall, who resigned from the Foreign Office over Brexit lies, now thinks the British malaise is much deeper than that or Boris Johnson

Who will Stop Human Rights Abuses if this Tory Government puts Itself Above the Law?

Dominic Raab’s is hollowing out protections and stifling judges will make state abuse of power unpunishable - In effect making UK state abuse 'legal'

UK Government Denying Democracy & Ruling by Diktat

Two committee reports condemn the shift of power away from Parliament to ministers through the use of ‘skeleton bills’ and statutory instruments

The End of GDPR & the Rise of Data Discrimination

Corrupt, Tory profiteers eliminate data protection to allow their donors to make huge profits from your private data

Boris Johnson Accused of Corruption as he Tears up System to Fight Westminster Sleaze

Boris Johnson tore up the independent system for combating sleaze in parliament on Wednesday as he threw the government’s weight behind protecting a Conservative MP who was found to have repeatedly breached lobbying rules.

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 - 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

Stop the Assault on our Democratic Freedoms - United Kingdom

Let’s take a stand against the government’s insidious power grab and its attempts to stifle the voice of civil society

Mandatory Voter ID - Tory Govt Makes Astonishing Admission 3.5 Million Will Be Disenfranchised

Users without ID would experience a serious restriction of their experience, freedom of expression and rights

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’