The Ghosts of the Worldwide Surveillance Apparatus Show Their Hand
Phantom Parrot, a British documentary now screening in the US, sheds light on the Orwellian technologies being used across borders to repress activists, journalists, and others.
What the UK’s Arrest of a French Publisher Means for Public Intellectuals the World Over
The detention of Ernest Moret raises urgent questions about British authorities’ targeting public intellectuals at the request of other nations.
Boris Johnson’s (Far From Final) Bill for Damages
While the elderly white men who run Britain’s Conservative Party chose between two deeply depressing choices for new leader, let’s take a minute to reckon just how much ruin the…
ScheerPost Contributors Honored Six Times at SoCal Journalism Awards
ScheerPost contributors won six out of the eight awards they were nominated for.
Biden’s Failure to Provide At-Home Covid Tests Looks Extra Ridiculous Arriving From the U.K.
Why is the Biden administration only now making rapid antigen tests available for free when the British government has been doing so for months?
Covid-19 Is a Boon for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Buds
The British government’s latest “test to travel” scheme is providing yet another opportunity for Conservative officials’ friends—like Randox founder Peter FitzGerald—to profit from the crisis.
The U.K.’s New COVID-19 Strain and Boris Johnson’s Bloody Blunders
The British prime minister’s pre-Christmas announcement that a new, highly contagious strain of the coronavirus is ripping through England is as shocking as it is maddening.