Tag: Authoritarianism

J.K. Rowling has vowed to continue "calling a man a man" in defiance of controversial new SNP hate crime laws, which she branded "ludicrous".

Eugyppius paints a bleak picture of the state of democracy in Germany, as the Government seeks to use increasingly antidemocratic measures to suppress opposition.

Jimmy Lai, the 76-year-old British and Hong Kong citizen and founder of the Daily Apple, is on trial for "colluding with foreign forces", in a show of power from Beijing that marks the death of freedom in the territory.

Over a third of young people want to live under a leader who ignores elections and parliaments, according to a recent poll. What's driving this love of authoritarianism and should we be worried?

The rise of the American-led West was supposed to be the 'end of history' as liberal democracy triumphed. But with the self-hating West stuck in a Net Zero doom loop, is the ascendancy of the autocracies now unstoppable?

Why is a Conservative Prime Minister following the lead of health authoritarian Jacinda Ardern in introducing a progressive smoking ban that will see everyone born after 2009 banned from buying cigarettes?

Richard Littlejohn has written about the appalling new Energy Bill currently being rushed through Parliament, pointing out that, among other horrors, homeowners will be liable for jail for failing to install a heat pump.

Former Green Party Deputy Leader Shahrar Ali is bringing a case against the party after being sacked for expressing his gender critical beliefs, but he needs your help to pay his legal expenses.

Fraser Hudghton of the Free Speech Union challenges Scotland's Hate Crime Act following news that from next year, 'hate crime' will encompass age-related threats or abusive language.

Welcome to Anti-Democratic Britain, where the activist elite wages a deranged war on cars, bans gas boilers and fails to prosecute crime. We are rapidly becoming a democracy in name only, warns Allister Heath.