The Big Issue

A creeping autocracy we ignore at our peril

e are in the midst of simultaneous crises: climate change and the cost of living. Yet our prime ministerial candidates barely seem interested. Why? The answer goes back to the Second World War. In the 1940s politicians across Europe worked together to draft the European Convention on Human Rights. For the first time in history, human dignity was protected in law. The drafters knew Nazism was not the only threat to human rights. Just a few years

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