{
  "title": "Incidents: shutdowns and blocking, head of government Stanley Baldwin",
  "canonical_url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents?tactic=shutdowns_and_blocking&leader=stanley-baldwin&view=cards",
  "filters": {
    "tactic": "shutdowns_and_blocking",
    "leader": "stanley-baldwin",
    "view": "cards"
  },
  "sort": "date",
  "count": 1,
  "page": 1,
  "pages": 1,
  "per_page": 50,
  "counts_caveat": "The number of entries reflects the depth of this record, not the severity of a country's conduct.",
  "facets": {
    "country": [
      {
        "value": "GB",
        "label": "United Kingdom",
        "rsf": {
          "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
          "year": 2026,
          "rank": 18,
          "of": 180,
          "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180",
          "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
        }
      }
    ],
    "continent": [
      {
        "value": "europe",
        "label": "Europe"
      }
    ],
    "tactic": [
      {
        "value": "funding_and_ownership_pressure",
        "label": "Funding and ownership pressure",
        "count": 1
      },
      {
        "value": "shutdowns_and_blocking",
        "label": "Shutdowns and blocking",
        "count": 1
      }
    ],
    "stage": [
      {
        "value": "pressure",
        "label": "Pressure",
        "count": 1
      }
    ],
    "level": [
      {
        "value": "national",
        "label": "National",
        "count": 1
      }
    ],
    "outcome": [
      {
        "value": "ongoing",
        "label": "Ongoing",
        "count": 1
      }
    ],
    "leader": [
      {
        "value": "stanley-baldwin",
        "label": "Stanley Baldwin"
      }
    ],
    "era": [
      {
        "value": "1920s",
        "label": "1920s",
        "count": 1
      }
    ],
    "year": [
      {
        "value": "1926",
        "label": "1926",
        "count": 1
      }
    ],
    "has_case": [
      {
        "value": "0",
        "label": "without a court case",
        "count": 1
      }
    ]
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "slug": "1926-uk-general-strike-newsprint-requisition",
      "title": "United Kingdom: Government requisitions newsprint and restricts rival newspapers during the 1926 General Strike",
      "occurred_on": "1926-05-01",
      "occurred_on_precision": "month",
      "country": "GB",
      "country_name": "United Kingdom",
      "continent": "europe",
      "jurisdiction": "GB",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "funding_and_ownership_pressure",
      "tactics": [
        "funding_and_ownership_pressure",
        "shutdowns_and_blocking"
      ],
      "leader_slug": "stanley-baldwin",
      "leader_name": "Stanley Baldwin",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Britain was in the midst of a general strike called by the Trades Union Congress in May 1926 in support of coal miners in a dispute with mine owners, during which most independent newspapers could not print normally.",
      "outcome": "ongoing",
      "outcome_on": "1926-05-10",
      "outcome_note": "As of the exchanges recorded in Parliament on May 10, 1926, the newsprint embargo on rival newspapers remained in place while the government's own paper continued publishing with requisitioned supplies.",
      "stage": "pressure",
      "ladder_note": null,
      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 18,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
      },
      "era": "1920s",
      "granularity": "anchor",
      "status": "historical",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "During the general strike called by the Trades Union Congress in May 1926, the British government requisitioned the country's available newsprint for its own newspaper, the British Gazette, and placed a provisional embargo on paper supplies to the Trades Union Congress's British Worker and many other newspapers. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill defended the measures in the House of Commons as necessary to keep the government's own newspaper in production.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1926-uk-general-strike-newsprint-requisition"
    }
  ],
  "downloads": {
    "csv": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents?tactic=shutdowns_and_blocking&leader=stanley-baldwin&view=cards&format=csv",
    "json": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents.json?tactic=shutdowns_and_blocking&leader=stanley-baldwin&view=cards",
    "md": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents.md?tactic=shutdowns_and_blocking&leader=stanley-baldwin&view=cards"
  },
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  }
}