{"id":158796,"date":"2020-09-01T15:52:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/01\/no-10-and-the-secretly-funded-lobby-groups-intent-on-undermining-democracy-george-monbiot\/"},"modified":"2020-09-01T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:52:06","slug":"no-10-and-the-secretly-funded-lobby-groups-intent-on-undermining-democracy-george-monbiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=158796","title":{"rendered":"No 10 and the secretly funded lobby groups intent on undermining democracy | George Monbiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinktanks such as Policy Exchange are working to shift power away from state institutions \u2013 into the prime minister\u2019s officeTo accumulate power, a government with authoritarian tendencies must first destroy power. It must reduce rival centres of power \u2013 the judiciary, the civil service, academia, broadcasters, local government, civil society \u2013 to satellites of its own authority, controlled from the centre, deprived of independent action. But it must do this while claiming to act in the people\u2019s name.So it needs an apparatus of justification: arguments that can be fed through a sympathetic press and manufactured into outrage against its rivals. This is where the intellectual work of such a government is focused. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/sep\/01\/no-10-lobby-groups-democracy-policy-exchange\" target=\"_blank\">No 10 and the secretly funded lobby groups intent on undermining democracy | George Monbiot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinktanks such as Policy Exchange are working to shift power away from state institutions \u2013 into the prime minister\u2019s officeTo accumulate power, a government with authoritarian tendencies must first destroy power. It must reduce rival centres of power \u2013 the judiciary, the civil service, academia, broadcasters, local government, civil society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}