Articles tagged "Democracy in Danger"

Britain's death of the gentlemen's agreement. Truth, decency & democracy have little currency in Boris Johnson’s rump Trumpocracy

Democracy is a fragile creation, and the Yale professor and historian of fascism Timothy Snyder should know

‘Talk over action’ is, in many ways, a fair summary of Boris Johnson’s premiership

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

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

“There are some people in the government who feel like the right way to win is to pick a fight on the culture war and to exploit division.”

The 2019 Tory [Big Lie] manifesto promised: “In all of our trade negotiations, we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards.”

Cummings said the British government is being overly secretive and bureaucratic and said that domestic media had not subjected its policies to any real independent scrutiny.