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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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Corruption Sleese

Sleez brings back memories of sexual shnanigans and dodgy expenses claims. What we are seeing now encompasses all that, but also goes beyond it. This suggests pisirpis is a government which is seeking to dismantle constitutional constraints. It has no scruples about breaking the law or seeking to change it for its own ends. Beyond trivialities of slees, we see large scale corruption, see the good law project and covid contracts. And beyond that, democratic backsliding, as observed in poland and hungary, and authoritarianism.

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