(2022-06-05). Boris Johnson could face no-confidence vote as poll signals Tory defeat in Wakefield. thecanary.co Boris Johnson could reportedly face a crunch vote on his premiership. It comes as new polling predicted the Conservatives risk being pummelled in a key electoral contest. | Following Partygate, is the party over?: | Wakefield will go to the polls on 23 June to elect a new MP. And a survey of voters has suggested the Tories could lose the by-election by as much as 20 points. It indicates that revelations about Downing Street lockdown-busting parties have hit the party's popularity in a battleground seat. The prime minister secured his landslide 2019 majority off the back of scalps in the so-called Red Wall…
(2022-06-05). Tiananmen Protests Reading List. orinocotribune.com By Qiao Collective — Jun 4, 2022 | More than thirty years later, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 remain a touchstone of a Western mythology spun to challenge the fundamental legitimacy of the Communist Party of China. By collapsing the diverse and often contradictory demands of protesters into a simplistic call for Western-style capitalist democracy, the West's selective memory of June 4 continues to inform liberal platitudes to "stand with the Chinese people" against their government, reifying the universality of Western capitalism and U.S. global hegemony in the process. This reading list compile…