HSBC accused of abetting China’s attack on democracy: Protesters see Hong Kong accounts frozen By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:57 GMT, 26 January 2021 | Updated: 23:23 GMT, 26 January 2021 HSBC has been accused of ‘aiding and abetting one of the biggest crackdowns on democracy in the world’ over its treatment … Read more
China has threatened a ‘counterstrike’ against Australia after Canberra condemned Beijing’s mass arrest of 55 politicians and activists in Hong Kong. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao, who has a fake image of an Australian soldier holding a bloody knife to a child’s throat pinned to the top of his Twitter account, said anyone who gets … Read more
China has threatened a ‘counterstrike’ against Australia after Canberra condemned Beijing’s mass arrest of 55 politicians and activists in Hong Kong. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao, who has a fake image of an Australian soldier holding a bloody knife to a child’s throat pinned to the top of his Twitter account, said anyone who gets … Read more
Shocking images today revealed the trail of destruction inside the US Capitol after hundreds of Donald Trump’s mob ransacked the seat of American democracy to demand Joe Biden’s election be overturned. Lecterns piled like trash, windows smashed, statues of heroes vandilized, dossiers strewn across office floors and telephones ripped from the walls lay among the … Read more
Hong Kong democracy protester Joshua Wong is jailed for 13 months for leading last year’s anti-government demonstrations Wong, 24, and colleagues pleaded guilty to charges of unlawful assembly Agnes Chow, 23, and Ivan Lam, 26, were also jailed for 10 and seven months The charges were linked to the siege of police headquarters at protests … Read more
Bill Russo, a deputy campaign communications director for Biden, lashed out at Facebook on Monday A top aide to President-elect Joe Biden has accused Facebook of ‘shredding the fabric of our democracy’ in the latest signal that the Democratic administration may be tougher on Big Tech than Republican President Donald Trump has been. Bill Russo, a … Read more
Bill Russo, a deputy campaign communications director for Biden, lashed out at Facebook on Monday A top aide to President-elect Joe Biden has accused Facebook of ‘shredding the fabric of our democracy’ in the latest signal that the Democratic administration may be tougher on Big Tech than Republican President Donald Trump has been. Bill Russo, a … Read more
When two senior police officers were confused last week about the current lockdown rules, I was not surprised. The different regulations and tiers across the country are bewildering and, what’s more, they are changing from area to area, day by day. And if senior police officers are unclear, the public must be, too. Of course, … Read more
When two senior police officers were confused last week about the current lockdown rules, I was not surprised. The different regulations and tiers across the country are bewildering and, what’s more, they are changing from area to area, day by day. And if senior police officers are unclear, the public must be, too. Of course, … Read more
Millennials ‘lose faith’ in democracy: Less than half of adults under-35 are satisfied with political system, study suggests Experts from Cambridge University say study shows 48 per cent of those under 35 believe in democracy compared to two thirds in the 1990s and early 2000s First time in living memory that majority of young dissatisfied … Read more