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Poland’s Latest Anti-Abortion Crackdown Targets Hospitals and Women
Sian Norris and Claudia Torrisi report on prosecutors demanding a hospital hand over data of patients who have had legal abortions
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The Four Pillars of Power: How Poland’s Ruling Party Undermines Freedom & Democracy
Poland’s opposition media have written an open letter condemning Government attacks on democracy and press freedom
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Asylum Seekers Have Been Deliberately Set-Up to Fail
The brutal portrayal and treatment of asylum seekers has been used to foment nationalist grievances, contends Maheen Behrana
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‘The World Belongs to Whoever Brings Enough Children Into It’: Backlash Against LGBTIQ Rights in Hungary Continues
Viktor Orbán’s latest attacks on the LGBTIQ community are part of a much wider populist assault on women and minority groups, reports Sian Norris
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Johnson’s ‘Woke’ Rambling Reveals his Alt-Right Alliance with Trump’s Culture Wars
A simple question about Joe Biden put to the Prime Minister exposed the deep and historic ties of his Vote Leave regime with the ethos of the former US President – the last thing Johnson wants to confront, argues Hardeep Matharu
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Will his Own COVID Conspiracies and Broken Promises Cost Jair Bolsonaro his Presidency?
Monica Piccinini looks at how the Brazilian electorate has been let down by their populist authoritarian leader
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The Storming of the Capitol – Part One: Trump’s Red Guards
In the first part of a series of analyses, Anthony Barnett looks at how the Chinese Communist Party is weaponising the Washington insurrection to defend its suppression of Hong Kong
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Blinding Exceptionalism: The Insidious Attacks on British Democracy Are No Less Dangerous than Trump’s America
Hardeep Matharu explores why the attacks on the rule of law and accountability by Boris Johnson and his Government are not interpreted to be as alarming for the UK as the more overt destruction being waged by Donald Trump in America
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‘American Carnage’: Trump’s Promise Fulfilled – Other Democracies Beware
CJ Werleman explores how the US President’s extraordinary assault on American democracy should ring alarm bells for the UK and Australia
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Labour Must Confront the Conservatives’ Immigration Lies Or Continue to Lose
The likes of Boris Johnson, Priti Patel and Nigel Farage will continue to capitalise politically on Labour’s unwillingness to portray immigration as a benefit to Britain, argues Mike Buckley
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With a Vengeful Trump and Rampant Coronavirus, America’s Darkest Winter Begins
CJ Werleman explores the threats to Americans’ lives and that of their democracy which show no sign of diminishing soon
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Britain’s Last Day in Brussels: A Populist Punch-Up
As the end of the Brexit transition period fast approaches, Blaise Baquiche recalls the day British MEPs said goodbye in the European Parliament
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Latin America on the Edge: Pandemic Mishandling, Corruption and Authoritarianism Ignite Mass Dissent
Carole Concha Bell reports on the social unrest exploding across Latin America as governments fail to address the Coronavirus pandemic and its consequences
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József Szájer: Homophobia, Hypocrisy and the Authoritarian Personality
Szabolcs Panyi explains how the MEP apprehended in an all-male orgy in Brussels was the leading combatant in the legal and culture wars against LGBT rights in Hungary
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‘Institutionalised Impunity’: Chilean Police Shooting at Children’s Home Sparks New Wave of Unrest
Carole Concha Bell reports on another atrocity as Chile’s billionaire President Sebastian Piñera allows police violence to return to the horrific levels of the Augusto Pinochet regime
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Trumpism Still Festers in Boris Johnson’s Britain – But it is Dying
Nafeez Ahmed tracks the export of populist demagoguery from America to Britain, and urges a campaign to snuff out its dying embers
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Biden Will Not Change Britain – Trumpism Is Here to Stay
Jonathan Lis explains why Boris Johnson will not simply abandon the divisive nationalist, neo-imperialist politics he has built his premiership on just because Donald Trump is on his way out of the White House
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Trump’s Ability to Ignite a Vengeful Civil War Should Not Be Underestimated
CJ Werleman documents the violence which Trump supporters have already perpetrated around the 2020 Presidential Election and warns that the very real threat from right-wing terrorism is likely to be exploited by the President
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US Election 2020: Competence is Not the Perfect Antidote to Authoritarian Populism
Mike Buckley argues that those concerned about the Boris Johnson regime in Britain should take note of Donald Trump’s enduring popularity in the United States
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Editorial: A Narrow Escape
The US Presidential Election result shows the amount of work that needs to be done, at home and abroad, to combat the rise of authoritarian populism and the people it speaks to
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Flattening the Curve of COVID Conviction
Byline Times’ Secret Scientist finds that science is being abused as much in the second wave of COVID-19 as it was in the first
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COVID-19 and the Second Harrying of The North
Byline Times’ chief medical officer, John Ashton, looks at how the Government has lost popular support for its unequal tier system
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‘There is No Alternative to Herd Immunity’: How a Dangerous Fallacy Infected the World
Sam Bright reports on the spread of a dangerous concept that has gained a foothold in public health decisions across the globe
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Political Manipulation has Made ‘Patriotism’ a Dirty Word
The Labour Party is attempting to recapture patriotism from closed-border populists – a move that should be welcomed not condemned, argues Eleanor Longman-Rood
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Johnson’s Suggestion that ‘Freedom-Loving’ Britain has a Death Wish May Be his Greatest Insight
With 60,000 people dead from COVID-19, a failing economy, a trashed international reputation, a ‘no deal’ Brexit looming and a second Coronavirus wave, Hardeep Matharu explores whether the Prime Minister is right in declaring that the British public’s own sense of exceptionalism has put the UK on a unique, sadopopulist path
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Fact-Free Farage: UK Sees Fall in Asylum Applications
New Government figures show the Brexit Party Leader’s asylum ‘invasion’ for what it is: a myth
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UNCONSCIOUS EMPIRE: Saving ‘Britannia’ and Losing the Plot
Continuing to wage a Steve Bannon-style culture war, Boris Johnson’s Government will do nothing to confront the damaging legacy of our imperial past because its mythologised symbolism is all it has to sell to Brexit Britain, argues Hardeep Matharu
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Greed and Destruction: COVID-19 Isn’t Slowing the Demolition of the Amazon
Monica Piccinini reports on the relentless felling of forest habitats by Brazilian big business and Government
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How Did You Earn Your Passport? Asylum Seekers Are Being Denied Human Rights by Narrow-Minded Nationalism
The architects of COVID-19 chaos are sacrificing asylum seekers to cover up their own mistakes, argues Isobel Ingham-Barrow
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Australia’s Convict Colony Past Produced the Interview that Wrecked Trump
CJ Werleman explores why the Australian journalist Jonathan Swan was able to sidestep deference and put the American President on the spot as others have been unable to do
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Boris Johnson’s Great Spaffometer
Stephen Colegrave tries to estimate how many billions the Prime Minister and his Government have wasted in their first year in power
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Hell of a Year: Britain Under Johnson’s Rule
Otto English compiles the epic accomplishments of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, during his first year as Prime Minister
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The Government’s Ten Biggest Coronavirus Lies Unmasked
With mounting scandals and inconsistencies over the Government’s handling of COVID-19, Stephen Colegrave and Peter Jukes have compiled a list of its biggest falsehoods so far
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A Very British Coup? Former Royal Navy Trident Submarine Commander Assesses
Dr Andrew Corbett, of the Joint Services Command and Staff College, delves into evidence that the Government is actively undermining British democracy
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Corruption, Negligence and Harassment in Brazil
Monica Piccinini considers how the Brazilian Government is trying to turn the Coronavirus pandemic to its advantage
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The Sick Man of Europe: How Historians Will View the UK’s ‘Lockdown Generation’
Stephen Colegrave looks at the structural failures behind Britain’s COVID-19 catastrophe from the perspective of ten years’ time
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Boris Johnson’s Latest Weapon of Mass Distraction
Knighting Captain Tom Moore – rightly admired for his fundraising for the NHS – is a cynical ploy by a populist Prime Minister struggling to do his job in an actual crisis, says Otto English.
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Grabbing the Future Back from Nationalists
How has Brexit impacted on the UK’s COVID-19 response and why is the UK’s future relationship with the European Union now more important than ever?
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The Coronavirus Crisis: Brazilian President Dismisses COVID-19 as ‘Sniffles’ – But it Might Be Terminal For Him
Monica Piccinini reports on Jair Bolosnaro’s approach to COVID-19 and the likely impact on him and his people.
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Democracy in the UK – How Worried Should We Be?
Mike Buckley observes how authoritarian takeovers are often led by elected incumbents and finds worrying signs in Boris Johnson’s populist approach.
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Journalism Under Threat: ‘In the Battle for Truth, You have to say who Lies’
Fiona O’Connor reports on the threats being faced by women journalists around the world and how one of the loudest voices against the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte is standing firm.
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Labour Must Win Over England or Accept Never Winning Power Again
Hardeep Matharu explores the findings of a new report suggesting that the Labour Party must go beyond economic and social concerns and engage with people’s feelings about their identity.
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Namaste, Trump: Why the President’s Visit to India is About Optics
CJ Werleman on the meeting of India and America’s two right-wing ‘strong men’.
