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Was this the year that British democracy as we have known it began to turn into something else? Politicians, voters and journalists have made this claim…

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel sits down with Eliot Higgins, founder of the open-source investigative…

Jarvis tells MPs Chinese spying operation amounts to interference in British democracyJarvis says MI5 issued an espionage alert earlier today to MPs, peers and parliamentary staff.…

It’s extraordinary that a profound reshaping – and shrinking – of our democracy is happening under our noses, and virtually no one notices. For baffling reasons,…

On Sunday, President Donald Trump ordered 300 California National Guard troops to Portland, which Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called “authoritarian conduct” and he added: “We are…

Donald Trump likes to say he doesn’t actually lose elections–only the “rigged” ones. Such comments are not mere bluster, like the president’s boasts about golf. They…

We are living in an authoritarian state.It didn’t feel that way this morning, when I took my dog for his usual walk in the park and…

Reform branded ‘threat to democracy’ over Farage plan to remove thousands of migrants with leave to be in UKGood morning. Last month Reform UK unveiled its…

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has dismissed criticism from the United States over the conviction of the country’s former leader, Jair Bolsonaro, on coup…

Wales is a wonderfully unusual country and that is why I love it. But one quirk about Wales I really dislike is how increasingly often I…