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This is the problem with the argument that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear: it ignores the issue of power. If we are not careful, transparency can be used to increase, rather than reduce, the information asymmetry between ruler and ruled.

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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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