The Czech government's new culture war assault on press freedom shows the Maga spirit is still alive in Europe | Jan Bělíček

The country’s wealthy elite is aligning itself with the far-right politics of the Motorists party to stifle dissent Oto Klempíř was for many years the frontman of JAR, a popular Czech funk-rock band. He was expelled from the band last year, not over creative differences, or even because of his collaboration with the secret police in the 1980s, but after he declared his intention to stand for parliament for Motorists for Themselves, a populist, nationalist, climate-sceptic party that is clo