Starmer’s authoritarian instincts
Freddie Attenborough has a timely Critic piece on Keir Starmer’s authoritarian attitude to free speech.
Starmer’s authoritarian instincts
Laws have been tightened, censorship powers expanded, and speech-related prosecutions pursued
Speaking to Fox News after his meeting with Vice President JD Vance, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer dismissed concerns that his government was cracking down on free expression.
“We actually had some exchanges today about things like freedom of speech. We got on very well, by the way,” he said.
“We had a really good discussion over lunch, and I made clear we’ve had freedom of speech in the United Kingdom for a very, very long time, and we guard it preciously.”
The whole piece is well worth reading while we still can.
Starmer insists that Britain “guards free speech preciously”. There’s certainly a lot of “guarding” going on — of those jailed for speech crimes, of protesters arrested for Quran burning, of tech firms forced to censor content and undermine end-to-end encryption — but none of free speech. Under his government, laws have been tightened, censorship powers expanded, and speech-related prosecutions pursued. The contrast between his lofty appeals to Britain’s democratic tradition and the reality of his government’s authoritarian instincts is becoming increasingly impossible to ignore.
Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/03/starmers-authoritarian-instincts.html
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