Articles tagged "oppression"

Russia blocks final document at UN nuclear treaty conference -- Russia using 'education' as a tool of oppression -- Russia shells Ukrainian military with ‘all types of weapons,’ tries to resume offensive in Donetsk Oblast -- Russia received hundreds of Iranian drones -- and more

Users without ID would experience a serious restriction of their experience, freedom of expression and rights

Looking at the United Kingdom's gradual, cumulative decline until disruption to everyday life becomes too endemic to avoid

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

United Kingdom continues down the oppressive road to a dictatorial system. Legislation of thought, speech, information. UK looses grip on it's freedom & democracy daily.

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

Banning protest would make us more like Putin’s Russia than the UK. It would be a lasting and toxic legacy for Boris Johnson.

This story appears to have everything – sex, betrayal, abuse of power, lies told in high places – so, on the face of, it is somewhat surprising to find it covered only grudgingly, and at the margins of the BBC’s huge range of output.

Tory government wants to effectively ban dissent and protest with new legislation

A key example cited in the report, and mentioned in the Commons, is in a word, untrue

Tory-run borough asking for photo ID to register for proxy or postal votes, though this is not required by law