Unravelling the Covid State: From parliamentary democracy to the regulatory state?

Dec 16, 2021 by

by Jim McConalogue, Civitas: Britain’s past and current ‘Plan B’ responses to Covid-19 marks the emergence of a new phase in the growth of ‘the regulatory state’ – a new report published by Civitas suggests – in which, crucial...

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Too late we see liberty lost: Our shackles are already forged

Dec 15, 2021 by

by Frederick Edward, TCW: PENNIES appear to be dropping. Increasingly, people are seeing the patently obvious. Questions are being asked. We’re on the cusp of taking another leap down the path of the debasement of our fundamental...

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When fear leads to tyranny

Nov 5, 2021 by

by Jonathan Sumption, UnHerd: Democracy is being quietly redefined. Towards the end of his long life, John Adams, one of the founding fathers of American democracy, became increasingly gloomy about its prospects. Writing to the Virginia...

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Death is the price we pay for freedom

Oct 18, 2021 by

by Archbishop Cranmer: “We cannot have the death of an MP being a price worth paying for our democracy,” said Labour’s Harriet Harman on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. “It can’t be an occupational hazard of being an MP that you can face...

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When the secret ballot is abandoned, so is democracy

Oct 18, 2021 by

by Peter Golds, Conservative Home: The heading of this article is surely a statement of the obvious. The pseudo elections that took place under Communism were notorious in that those who chose to vote in secret became targets of suspicion...

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Democracy dies when freedom of speech is restricted

Oct 6, 2021 by

by Brendan O’Neill, spiked: From the LGB Alliance to the Sun, why is censorship the left’s answer to everything? Imagine if someone had told you back in the 1980s that in the future the Tories would proudly host a pro-homosexual...

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