Whenever you watch a documentary about a dictator’s path to power, there comes a moment when you think: “Why didn’t people do something? As Boris Johnson rams yet more powers into the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, a vaguely democratic nation is sliding towards autocracy. After the bill had mostly passed through parliament and could be properly debated, the government slipped in a series of terrifying amendments. There’s a demonstration in London this afternoon to coincide with the report stage of the bill in the Lords. Those with the power and the platforms seem to have reached a tacit consensus: we’ll sit this one out.

Source: The Guardian December 09, 2021 06:25 UTC