It happens at local level too ~ not to the same extent: when I was trying to save a piece of rewilded land from local town council's plan to bulldoze & develop, I wrote a letter to th paper detailing the crossover status of one councillor between local, district and a housing company. Next thnig, he tried to sue me 'in the name of the whole council'. Luckily, it was blatant bullying and attempt to scare me off and a good lawyer friend wrote a scathing letter on my behalf. The man was a Tory. I think that says it all.
Interestingly I was ranting on Twitter this morning BOTH about the corrupt and toxic relationship between corporate media and political power in Britain's non democracy, as well as the Kremlin funded psychological warfare offensive that delivered BREXIT and Johnson's corrupt cabal to power. Carole Cadwalladr is among a handful of genuine investigative journalists in the UK who has inherited the mantle from old timers like Nick Davies (sorry Nick but we ARE mates!) and the show trial against her shows precisely what happens when journalists actually do their job in holding truth to power!
It happens at local level too ~ not to the same extent: when I was trying to save a piece of rewilded land from local town council's plan to bulldoze & develop, I wrote a letter to th paper detailing the crossover status of one councillor between local, district and a housing company. Next thnig, he tried to sue me 'in the name of the whole council'. Luckily, it was blatant bullying and attempt to scare me off and a good lawyer friend wrote a scathing letter on my behalf. The man was a Tory. I think that says it all.
Interestingly I was ranting on Twitter this morning BOTH about the corrupt and toxic relationship between corporate media and political power in Britain's non democracy, as well as the Kremlin funded psychological warfare offensive that delivered BREXIT and Johnson's corrupt cabal to power. Carole Cadwalladr is among a handful of genuine investigative journalists in the UK who has inherited the mantle from old timers like Nick Davies (sorry Nick but we ARE mates!) and the show trial against her shows precisely what happens when journalists actually do their job in holding truth to power!