Tag: Boris Johnson
Poverty division democratic destruction: The Johnson legacy
In many ways Johnson and the toxic brand of Conservatism he represents is a product of the age, The Age of Populism, which has infected many democracies.
Johnson does Downing Street: Booze, lies and playacting
Johnson is part of a privileged cozy class (Eton to Oxbridge to Whitehall) that feels themselves exempt from moral duties, social obligations and legal restrictions.
Protests across Britain against Johnson’s suspension of parliament
“We're fighting for democracy and for a society that works for the 99 percent, not the elites that Trump and Johnson serve.”
Boris Johnson and the new battle of Britain
All eyes are focused these days on Boris Johnson, the new prime minister of the United Kingdom.
But that’s...
Boris Johnson, ‘political vegemite’, becomes the UK prime minister. Let the...
To no-one’s great surprise, Boris Johnson has been elected by the members of the Conservative Party to be the new leader, and...
Brexit blows up: Boris Johnson’s resignation is very bad news for...
With less than one year before Britan is scheduled to leave the European Union, two top Brexiters exit office.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.