by Whitehouse Communications | 11 Dec 2025 | Civil liberties, European Union
The European Union has long prided itself on being a project of democratic legitimacy, transparency, and accountability. Yet recent developments suggest that the institutional balance underpinning EU policymaking is shifting in ways that weaken democratic oversight...
by Whitehouse Communications | 19 May 2022 | Civil liberties, Communications, Hong Kong, Human rights and equality, Politics, Uncategorized, Webinar, Whitehouse News
During a webinar hosted today co-hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hong Kong and the APPG on Freedom of Religion and Belief, Pastor Roy Chan, whose church in Hong Kong had its bank account frozen spoke about his experience running a church since...
by Whitehouse Communications | 7 Sep 2021 | Civil liberties, Communications, Hong Kong, Human rights and equality, Politics, Uncategorized, Webinar, Whitehouse News
Speaking to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hong Kong and representatives of the Hong Kong diaspora, Vines, who fled the city last month in fear of persecution, urged the British Government to continue to uphold the principles enshrined in the Sino-British...
by Whitehouse Communications | 22 May 2021 | Civil liberties, Education & Children's Services, Human rights and equality, Justice, Politics, Public Sector, Third Sector, Whitehouse News
Without free speech, there can be no free exchange of ideas, no free society and no effective democracy. Even, or perhaps especially, during the pandemic there has been robust public discourse about the scale and impact of the threat to life and to the economy that...
by Whitehouse Communications | 12 Apr 2021 | Communications, Local Government, Politics, PR and Media Relations, Public Sector, Whitehouse News
The May elections are just around the corner and the deadline to register to vote is fast approaching. Make sure you register this week or lose your chance to potentially help determine how likely a Scottish referendum could be, how strong the blue wall truly is,...