The bill calls for one to be imprisoned for causing theoretical discomfort in a theoretical person, writes Christina Maas. It removes proof of harm, rewrites fear as legal standard, and shifts the burden of innocence to the accused.
Reporting facts in Keir Starmer’s Britain can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. This is what authoritarian governments do.
Every dictatorship is a grotesque opera buffa. No encomium is too outrageous. No bribe too small. No violation of civil liberties too extreme. No stupidity too absurd. All dissent, no matter how tepid, is treason.
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.
After a hitch in the administration’s speedboat-killing operations, there are now living plaintiffs with standing to challenge the president’s authority, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Watching 2,000 upstanding citizens, most of them elderly and many infirm, hustled through this mass-injustice process will be a defining moment in the U.K.’s headlong slide into fascism.
Nick Turse covers the U.S. president’s push in the direction of a genuine police state as he deploys armed forces in U.S. cities and proclaims he is waging a “war from within.”
Now that we have proved to be too defiant and rebellious, Keir Starmer’s government is ripping up the rulebook on protest in order to protect Israel.
The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights documents the crackdown on the Palestinian solidarity movement in France, Germany, the U.K. and U.S. since Oct. 7, 2023.
The burlesque in a committee room of the New Jersey state house over a law conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism was another depressing reminder of our path towards an authoritarian state.