"Increasingly, it has felt as though parts of the British press are not up to the curbing democratic practice of holding our government to account. As the Conservatives metastasised into a nativist populist project and won a parliamentary majority, there were too few alarm bells or flashing lights. Instead, a normalising media patter set up Boris Johnson as a scones-and-jam-eating, freedom-loving, socially liberal prime minister. Well, now his government has passed a shockingly authoritarian policing bill, a severe crackdown on protest that also criminalises Gypsy and traveller communities. One MP described the bill’s rules as “so loose and lazy they would make a dictator blush”. The contrast between political reality and media portrayal could hardly be starker."
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-liberal-conservatives-authoritarianism-b1819954.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-liberal-conservatives-authoritarianism-b1819954.html
The Independent
Opinion: Boris Johnson is not liberal, his draconian party is wrecking Britain
Is it too difficult to spot authoritarianism when it comes from the ideological camp that you sit with?
A bit liberal for sure, but it has a lot of information on the Koch Brothers
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-164403/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-164403/
Rolling Stone
Inside the Koch Brothers’ Toxic Empire
Together, Charles Koch, David Koch control one of the world's largest fortunes, which they are using to buy up our political system.