Tag: Democracy

Things are changing fast in Hong Kong. The slippery slope to tyranny has recently proved to be both steep and very slippery since the betrayal by the Chinese Government of its promise to keep the territory free.

George Galloway and Lee Anderson are exactly what Westminster has been claiming to want and need for the past 15 years. And yet both have now been made political outlaws for patently obscure reasons, says J. Sorel.

Keir Starmer barged into Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle's tiny office ahead of Hoyle's announcement of bending Parliament's rules to help Labour, while Sue Gray lurked nearby and Chris Bryant stalled in the chamber.

Together Declaration, a prominent anti-lockdown and pro-free-speech pressure group, has announced its intention to support candidates who align with its principles in elections this year.

The WHO Pandemic Treaty is a legally binding agreement that will commit the U.K. to adopt all measures set out by the Director-General during a future 'pandemic'. Yet Parliament will at no point scrutinise or vote on it.

'Elderly couple told they had to sell home to house asylum seekers' is a headline tailor-made for the anxieties of 2024. And while the actual story was not so blood-boiling, it still shows our property rights are in peril.

Keir Starmer's coming revolution is more radical than his opponents realise, says J Sorel. His vision is to codify Blair's Britain and place it beyond the reach of politicians in the hands of bureaucrats and judges.

A survey has found that half of Democrat voters endorse election conspiracies, which is only slightly less than the proportion of Republican voters who do so. Election denial is a bipartisan problem.

Yes, the German President did liken AfD supporters to "rats", says Robert Kogon. The claim that he was just alluding to the Pied Piper leading children astray doesn't stack up. And anyway, that's offensive enough.

Two weeks after a leading member of a party in Germany’s governing coalition compared AfD supporters to "flies on a pile of shit", German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has now compared them to "rats".