Slowly but surely, a state can repress its people. Why is the UK channelling Viktor Orbán’s Hungary? | Lydia Gall

I know enough about the erosion of civil rights to fear what I now see in the UKLydia Gall is a senior Europe researcher at Human Rights WatchRight to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warnI saw, at first hand, the slow erosion of the rule of law in Hungary. It began not with a single shocking act but with quiet legal changes that narrowed space for dissent; each step justified as reasonable or necessary, until suddenly, democracy itself felt like a performance rather than a