Articles tagged "UK"

Boris Johnson has lied to the country & to the House of Commons repeatedly for years

How Boris Johnson has used the vagueness and vulnerability of Britain’s unwritten constitution to erode democracy

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

The Government’s most senior Health official has contradicted the Prime Minister’s claims [Boris Johnson lied to MPs]

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

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

UK government ministers broke the law. Why no consequences for the government's unlawful behaviour?

He was crowned, or whatever happens to them, ‘Baron’ Cruddas on 2 February 2021 and a few days later, on 5 February 2021, he gave the Tories another half a million

Two Cabinet Ministers – Michael Gove and Matt Hancock – have now been found to have broken the law