The government is engaged in an active attack on our civil liberties by curtailing the right to protest—it's important to emphasise that this is being done for reasons unrelated to the pandemic, the legal changes are intended to be permanent. The police crackdown bill includes provisions to make it an offence to cause a ‘public … Continue reading The Conservatives’ New Policing Bill
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How the BBC Reports Foreign Policy (2/3/21)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56242610 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56253360 Today the BBC offers an interesting example of how foreign policy is reported. The headlines are 'Yemen conflict: UK cuts aid citing financial pressure from Covid’ and 'Yemen conflict: UK defends Yemeni aid cuts amid criticism from MPs’. There is no reason to doubt UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ view that the British … Continue reading How the BBC Reports Foreign Policy (2/3/21)