The law needs to be changed to put a stop to this. Do away with Slapp so public figures no longer have protection that they don't deserve. Make harassing journos easier to prosecute and convict.
It may be that Reform an anti British pro Russian company are breaking commercial law. Prosecute and jail their leaders if they do.
This paints a truly disturbing picture. One can only hope that journalists and programme makers who represent ordinary, decent people, can find the courage, as well as the funding to keep fighting back. Now is the time to cap political donations. Now is not the time to dismantle the BBC. We need more programmes like the ITV investigation; people are complacent and they need to be shown exactly what kind of Britain we would be living in were the likes of Farage, Musk, Trump or Robinson to gain more political power and influence. We also have to hope, that should the far-right use the courts to attempt to silence their critics, the justices will quickly throw out their cases, as has happened several times already in the US. General ignorance among the public and huge financial input from those with a malign agenda will allow growth of authoritarianism to the point where the genie will not be able to be put back in the bottle, and we will be sleepwalking towards a dictatorship. I sincerely hope that young people, who now are able to vote, have been properly taught the history of 1930s Germany and are equipped to make an informed judgement when the time comes.
Does anyone know what people have been taught in the last 60 years and who controlled the content of that history?
I know that I was taught no political history prior to that and I went to one of the nation's top grammar schools, so I am not expectant.
Later, direct experience of the low standard of political policing in London did nothing to encourage optimism, either, and that was 50 years ago so what must it be like today?
I couldn't understand, this morning, why it came to me that the description applicable to the right's tactics was 'pernicious' and I had to consult the OED as it was so long since I had used the word - to find it was defined as 'having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way'.
Le mot juste (the precise word) I would say, wouldn't you?
And it jogged my memory about pernicious anaemia which was common 50 or 60 years ago in the post war poverty and the consequent dietary deficits that we endured.
It depends on whether the journalist is honest and seeks the truth. There are too many journalists and MSMs supporting liars. Brexit would not have happened if truth had priority.
The law needs to be changed to put a stop to this. Do away with Slapp so public figures no longer have protection that they don't deserve. Make harassing journos easier to prosecute and convict.
It may be that Reform an anti British pro Russian company are breaking commercial law. Prosecute and jail their leaders if they do.
Can I encourage recipients of The Reformer (in German "Der Sturmer"??) to return unwanted copies to:
Freepost Plus RUHS-YGAJ-TKBL,
Reform UK, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London SW1P 4QP.
Recipients can place unwanted literature in an envelope addressed to that location without a stamp and Messers Harborne & Delo will pick up the tab.
This paints a truly disturbing picture. One can only hope that journalists and programme makers who represent ordinary, decent people, can find the courage, as well as the funding to keep fighting back. Now is the time to cap political donations. Now is not the time to dismantle the BBC. We need more programmes like the ITV investigation; people are complacent and they need to be shown exactly what kind of Britain we would be living in were the likes of Farage, Musk, Trump or Robinson to gain more political power and influence. We also have to hope, that should the far-right use the courts to attempt to silence their critics, the justices will quickly throw out their cases, as has happened several times already in the US. General ignorance among the public and huge financial input from those with a malign agenda will allow growth of authoritarianism to the point where the genie will not be able to be put back in the bottle, and we will be sleepwalking towards a dictatorship. I sincerely hope that young people, who now are able to vote, have been properly taught the history of 1930s Germany and are equipped to make an informed judgement when the time comes.
Does anyone know what people have been taught in the last 60 years and who controlled the content of that history?
I know that I was taught no political history prior to that and I went to one of the nation's top grammar schools, so I am not expectant.
Later, direct experience of the low standard of political policing in London did nothing to encourage optimism, either, and that was 50 years ago so what must it be like today?
I couldn't understand, this morning, why it came to me that the description applicable to the right's tactics was 'pernicious' and I had to consult the OED as it was so long since I had used the word - to find it was defined as 'having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way'.
Le mot juste (the precise word) I would say, wouldn't you?
And it jogged my memory about pernicious anaemia which was common 50 or 60 years ago in the post war poverty and the consequent dietary deficits that we endured.
It depends on whether the journalist is honest and seeks the truth. There are too many journalists and MSMs supporting liars. Brexit would not have happened if truth had priority.