Democracy

Therese Coffey mentioned challenging times twice in the Commons debate on Thursday last. That the times are so challenging is, in large part, a result of the government itself, which, having, entirely unnecessarily, denuded the state of investment since 2010, is creating the vast majority of the ongoing and everyday challenges for its own people.... Read more

Regime’s pursuit of former Corbyn staffers over ‘Labour leak’ report – instead of going after perpetrators of racism and abuse the report revealed – undermines next general election campaign, say insiders When Labour’s report on antisemitism in the party revealed the weaponisation of antisemitism to attack the left – and a string of incidents of […]

A number of Conservative candidates appear to have suddenly dropped the party’s blue branding, reports Max Colbert

David TC Davies refused to be interviewed by a journalist who'd dug into allegations of climate change denialism and his equal rights stance

Councils could have to choose between hiring extra staff to implement the change or informing voters that their vote is at risk, Byline Times has learned

Fascist attack on Brazilian Congress, and its financiers, will be punished says new left president Lula da Silva New left-wing Brazilian president Lula da Silva has ordered the National Guard into the country’s capital to quell riots and attacks by fascist supporters of defeated former president Jair Bolsonaro. da Silva, who was only sworn in […]

Many members of the Conservative Party's lords bench seem to be taking indefinite strike action, Byline Times analysis suggests

The links between Brazil's far-right leaders and the US Stop The Steal activists suggest a globally-connected movement determined to attack democracy, reports Sian Norris

This is excellent work from Tortoise Media (for, as they say, slow news)… It is worth listening to the short introduction below – then the link to the database itself is here: A real democratic service which makes for interesting reading – even when you discover that your own MP, like mine, hasn’t really received... Read more

I think that the right to strike is unquestionably a democratic right as argued in the Guardian here – surely anything else is just indentured labour? Apparently the way to tame the unions is to destroy their immunity from being sued for any harm striking might cause – or as the same article puts it:... Read more