"It’s as if the Age of Reason - the era of evidential argument - is ending & now knowledge is delegitimized & scientific consensus is dismissed. Democracy, which depends on shared truths, is in retreat, & autocracy, which depends on shared lies, is on the march." @SachaBaronCohen

But the autocrats-in-waiting who - RIGHT NOW, are executing well-planned covert coups - don't dismiss science & technology. They embrace it.

They recognise it is for what it is: the route to untrammeled power or as Cummings says "world-changing potential” https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1259527360937943044

I stumbled onto this by chance.

In trying to make sense of all the scandals connected to the govt's response to #COVID19, I realised that they were part of one big scandal: the #HerdImmunityScandal.

But why did the govt adopt a non-scientific strategy? https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1259875334171889666

“This looks like the beginning of a rolling coup. It starts with the civil service then moves on to the judiciary & the BBC,” writes @jnpowell1.

Don’t be distracted by the many decoys.

This is a highly-organised, well-funded, heavily-disguised coup. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-dominic-cummings-civil-service-war-mark-sedwill-judiciary-a9591721.html

The govt have speeded up their plans to curb the judiciary.

The coup is picking-up pace.

Journalists are nervous
Civil servants are nervous
Judges are nervous

The road to authoritarianism:
1 degrade media
2 neuter civil society
3 undermine rule of law
4 Do it "for the people"