This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to Silky Carlo.

She's the director of the British Civil Liberties

Organization Big Brother Watch.

She's going to be talking to us about the rapid rise of authoritarianism here in the UK,

specifically now with the backdrop of the Palestine-Israel War. It's a bit different to what we usually cover, but definitely has an important overlap.

Conflict, abusive government and ridiculous politicians all seem to go into the same basket.

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slash Popular Front. Patreon. First to get into this I think maybe let's just give a brief idea of the kind of

of creeping authoritarianism that has been happening in Britain like

over the last couple years. The way I've seen it the way I've kind of kept up to date

with it especially through your platform through through Big Brother Watch,

it seems to me that there's many different things

coming into power that seem very complicated,

very like in the weeds when you read the bills but then when you boil it down

it's like oh wow that's a really big deal but because of various other things you

just don't really hear about it in the press the same way that you should if people were really aware of it I think.

So maybe you can just give us a kind of rough idea of some of the measures that have been brought

in by the government in the last couple of years in Britain which have added to the

degradation of free speech and freedom of expression and what have you?

Well the past couple of years have been most noticeable in terms of attacks

on civil liberties I think have been most notable in terms of attacks on civil liberties I think have been most notable in terms of a

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