https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/25/world/julian-assange-plea-deal-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html

I bet that that is not what CNN called him twelve years ago.

Almost all countries have made or are making a worrisome shift to the far right.

Even the Netherlands feels extremely authoritarian these days. It’s creepy, frankly (but maybe I am mostly dealing with local corruption, which would be a different story).

It’s not just England, though. Protesting rights are being curbed everywhere, aren’t they? But perhaps more so in England than elsewhere. We’ll see what happens on 4 July. I want to see a real shift. I want to see the Green Party in power. I know that that’s not going to happen but it is the only real alternative to what we have now. Reform, Labour, the Conservatives, it’s all the same (and I suspect that Reform UK – aka UKIP – has only been revived in order to steal votes but I am not sure from which party it is supposed to steal those votes).