Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson is Legal and Policy Officer for Big Brother Watch
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The Online Safety Bill threatens basic liberties
Can the power of information be controlled?
The internet democratised speech but with the new Online Safety Bill, politicians and the media are trying to put the genie back in the bottle
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
A new low for women’s sport
The International Olympic Committee has disgraced itself
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?