Autocrats articles
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Brown-John: Colonel Talbot — SW Ontario's first autocratic despot
By: Lloyd Brown-John In both politics and organizational theory the exercise of power is key. Power may be exercised with consent, through consensus building, through force of will and even through simple coercion or force. We have recent examples of power being exercised with force, including Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Kim Jong Un’s North Korea and […]
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Like Germany’s president, I love a good kebab. Cosying up to autocrats like Erdoğan, less so
Germany’s complicity with Turkey’s repressive regime worries me more than its döner diplomacy“Nazis eat döner kebabs in secret,” must be one of the dumbest slogans I have seen at German protests against the far right. Yes, the popularity of the kebab in Germany has become something of a symbol of labour migration from Turkey after the second world war. And yes, Nazis get hungry, too. So what? If the consumption of ethnic-minority food was really an obstacle to the ideology of white supremacy,...