Alarm bells are ringing out for peaceful protest
I wasn’t out on the streets on Coronation Day with a Not My King placard. But, the arrests of more than 50 anti-royalist campaigners for peacefully exercising their right to do so, should make us all stand up to say Not My Democracy. Whatever our personal views on monarchy, the hard-line police response to sanitise […]
The Psychology of Anti-Mask “Libertarian”Contradictions
So called “libertarians” can justify comparing mask mandates to Naziism while supporting authoritarian laws because the latter primarily hurts people they don’t like. The government’s “Plan B” measures are like “Nazi Germany”. Mask mandates “the thin end of the authoritarian wedge”. The Health Protection Agency was invented by “Stalinist minds”.Vaccine passports are “a slippery slope” […]
Time for government to think again on Official Secrets Act reforms
“Journalism can continue to be a powerful force for good in our society.”
Covid passports were a mistake before and they’re a mistake now
Yesterday Boris Johnson announced vaccine passports in September for clubs or other enclosed crowded places with close contact. So is it necessary?
Is Britain becoming a police state?
We look at the policing bill and whether Britain is becoming a police state
The policing bill explained in 75 seconds
Watch Politics.co.uk’s exclusive animation to learn everything you need to know about the bill.
Policing bill: ‘Ethnic cleansing at its finest’
One protestor described the bill as “ethnic cleansing at its finest”
Policing bill: A step towards authoritarianism
The bill has combined many of the dangerous proposals Liberty has fought against.
Our Right to Peaceful Protest is being sent off in silence
Our democratic right to peaceful protest is being fatally silenced.
Protests are ‘fundamental to our democracy’
“Protests are as fundamental to our democracy as our parliament.”
