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Even when transparency reveals uncomfortable truths, it is still the better path. Problems don’t disappear when buried - they deepen.

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National security is becoming the new word of God to which all must submit in blind obedience.

Security services in principle exist for our protection but that is so only when they are accountable to the public for their considerable power.

Once the right of the people to see justice being done is eroded, it is not long before there is no justice at all.

You should not expect politicians to promote freedom of information. Why should they? They have a vested interest in controlling the public's access to information and thereby maintaining their grip on power.

With its idolising of stony-faced ‘strong men’, its fantasies of domination and control, fascism is the ideology of the insecure man. A man who feels - at base - unworthy, unwanted and powerless.

Substack Newsletter - Fascism: a disease born of male insecurity (2024)

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