Getting to grips with UK politics, from dealing with hate speech to the moves of power-hungry Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his top aide Dominic Cummings
I joined talkRADIO’s Cristo Foufas on Saturday for a review of UK politics, from the issue of hate speech to the power grab of the Johnson Government v. Britain’s civil servants and Ministers who dare critique policy and operations.
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We begin with the media’s distracting spectacle of a case in which a judge condemned a community officer’s intervention as “Orwellian”, getting the discussion back to the essentials of free speech, responsible speech, and hate speech.
Then we dissect this week’s UK Cabinet reshuffle gone pear-shaped: Johnson and his top advisor Dominic Cummings insisting on a subservient Treasury, leading to the resignation of Chancellor Sajid Javid; the firing of Ministers who raised points about Government policy in Cabinet and in the media; and the likely damage from the removal of Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith.
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