Before we get too superior, our Prime Minister (chosen by fewer than 160,000 members of the Conservative Party) suspended the elected legislature when it became inconvenient to him.
He was stopped by our constitution but his Government is - at this very moment - considering whether to change our constitution so he can't be stopped should he want to do it again.
Our media - including in particular, the BBC - scrambled to justify his actions. And if you were paying attention you learned a shocking lesson: that there was meaningfully nothing a Government in the UK could do which our media would not defend.
The things Johnson's Government has done wrong - the corruption, the kneejerk dishonesty, the suspension of democracy - we would in clear words condemn in any other country. But we are complacent and assume that, because our Government does it, it cannot be wrong.
This is a serious problem. A population or media that cannot imagine being betrayed by its Government will permit that Government to do anything. How serious must a betrayal be - we know suspending Parliament was not enough - before the population or media says clearly "enough"?
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