Articles tagged "dictatorship"

Putin plays it safe by delaying new mobilization ahead of election in Russia -- Putin plays it safe by delaying new mobilization ahead of election in Russia? -- Russia holds 500 Ukrainian medical workers captive -- Tusk says Orban government 'openly' supports Russian positions -- and more

Russian strike destroys 5-story apartment building in Avdiivka -- Almost a third of Ukrainian territory unsafe due to mines, unexploded ordinance -- Russia's Black Sea Fleet doubles down on defense -- Russia, China, and North Korea have new dynamics. And it’s bad for Ukraine -- and more

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

Johnson’s Government ‘Most Extreme I’ve Seen, Says Former Tory Attorney General

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

Three fellow audience members said Johnson was not wearing a face covering during the performance, despite the theatre’s requests for visitors to wear one at all times when not eating or drinking.

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

The fears are evidence-based, she says. “Universities are asking people to come back to campus without mandating that basic things are in place to make it safe. It’s not about emotion.”

Call for ministers not to ignore the cost of living crisis faced by people “in real trouble” who had been “tipped over the edge” financially by the pandemic

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

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