Tag: Authoritarianism

The UK's Covid response tore up the rule of law, bulldozed rights and showed a nation frighteningly willing to surrender its freedoms, argues Nick McBride.

Australia's scandal-ridden Covid Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been awarded the nation's top honour. Last year it went to Covid dictators Dan Andrews and Mark McGowan. Talk about failing up, says Rebekah Barnett.

Peers in the House of Lords will attempt to block the 'banter ban' in Labour’s workers' rights bill when it returns to Parliament later this month to safeguard freedom of speech and the British way of life.

Freedom of speech is being replaced by its antithesis, the 'right to participate', says Dr David McGrogan. This is where the battle lines are drawn as conservatives push back against the authoritarian tide.

A mother of two was arrested for theft and held in a police custody cell for more than seven hours after she confiscated two iPads belonging to her own children.

The ban on Lucy Connolly being permitted temporary release from jail to see her young daughter and sick husband is unprecedented, says David Shipley. Even murderers get that. The instruction must have come from higher up.

In authoritarian Britain, police are arresting more than 12,000 people each year for words that cause offence – over 30 arrests per day. Andrew Doyle has compiled a list of some of the state's known victims.

Watch out for the ratchet effect, says Abbie MacGregor. Otherwise we risk sleepwalking into the end of personal responsibility, where every aspect of life is subject to bureaucratic control in the name of public health.

When did our Era of National Demoralisation begin, wonders Joanna Gray. Was it with the smoking ban, or when police ditched smart black for fluorescent yellow, or when doctors stopped making house calls? All of the above.

Ben Pile savages the Government's climate policy, exposing how its manipulation of 'the Science' and apocalyptic scenarios mask a darker agenda.