Wondering if Robert del Naja might do something as well

Well said, Agreed upon that. Everything depends on the location and subject.

More than 700 of the UK’s leading legal academics have signed a stinging open letter urging Johnson to ditch “draconian” restrictions on the freedom to demonstrate, in one of the largest protests of its kind in decades.

The signatories, who represent a significant proportion of the UK’s legal scholars and include more than 120 professors of law from universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and York, warned of “an alarming extension of state control over legal assembly” from measures in the prime minister’s controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.

Scenes of women being forced to the ground and handcuffed while attending a vigil to murder victim Sarah Everard in south London on Saturday vividly highlighted the dangers of extending powers to control protests and public gatherings, they said.

The 300-page bill, which was rushed through its second reading in the Commons this week just days after being published, dramatically extends police powers to clamp down on protests and gives home secretary Patel the power to define the kind of “serious disruption” which could lead to demonstrators being arrested and prosecuted.

Under its terms, individuals could be jailed for up to 10 years for causing “serious annoyance or inconvenience”. Police could impose legally binding restrictions on marches or rallies on the grounds that the noise generated “may result in serious disruption to the activities of an organisation” or may “have a relevant impact on persons in the vicinity of the protest”. And unprecedented new powers could impose controls on protests by a single person.

Letter, published in The Independent, warned that such measures represent “an existential attack on the right to protest”.

Signatories pointed to warnings from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association that the threshold for imposing conditions on public assemblies in England and Wales is already “too low” and “does not reflect the strict test of necessity and proportionality” in international conventions.

And they expressed “alarm” that the proposed use of so-called Henry VIII powers would allow the home secretary to alter the definition of prosecutable behaviours without parliamentary approval or scrutiny.

Umm i think you have that wrong buddy. There is no crackdown whatsoever on lawful assembly by the biden administration. PRESIDENT Biden is not at all undertaking a power grab. FACT. If you care to elaborate on what “power grab,” you are referring to, I would be happy to hear you, but please refrain from uninformed statements about his mental ability. He had difficulty with live questions because he has a lifelong stutter. Even at his age and with his handicap, he ran circles around the former president.

I find it funny that people protesting lockdowns or BLM were roundly condemned but people protesting over the police’s role in a murder get a pass. You can’t pick and chose your causes when it comes to the law, this is what this pandemic has been about, scared people being taken advantage of by a crumbling political system desperate to grab hold of any power it can. The rights we enjoy were never given to us by the men with power, they were taken through blood and toil over centuries and we’ve willingly handed back these real freedoms for fake safety during the Islamic terrorism panic and the pandemic.

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Considering that Boris mentioned the U.K. is usually 3 weeks behind Germany & Europe until similar pandemic levels/issues hit the U.K., all these protests do not bode well for the current road map to end lockdowns

The laws passed have nothing to do with masks, various sections of extant coronavirus laws banned organised protest outright, and pending legislation about to come into force gives police the powers to break up protests and arrest protestors on highly onerous grounds. The new normal is basically having to live at the whims of a dysfunctional, incompetent and corrupt state whose policy decisions are made for them by a feral press owned by a couple of demon billionaires. Hope everyone feels safe. 

Most protests in the uk start peaceful then the anarchist opportunist twats turn up and pretend there is police brutality at a peaceful demo.

the peaceful protesters are all well gone by then.

Nonesense, usually spouted by middle class authoritarian boot lickers too far indoctrinated by a right-wing mediascape to think for themselves. You'd be working a 16 hour day with no weekends and your missues wouldn't have the vote if it wasn't for people willing to put their life and liberty on the line.

all up for protests.
just not you - the unwashed - turning up and stinking it out.
intimidation and violence gets you nowhere.

Anarchist wankers turning up to the peaceful Sarah Everard memorial was frustrating.
thats one of many.

dunno, i don’t follow the ‘feed’ (boomer).
it was a trending video about the riot.

As was this...

Haha, you're even more right wing than you used to be, you've learned nothing in 15 years of surrounding yourself with counter cultural imagery and values. Oh well, nevermind, you have a good day being afraid Pickle, I'm sure the Police will come protect you when you need em ;-)

Full Body Armour, Riot Shields, Steel Batons, Attack Dogs, Pepper Spray and charges with horses. Against girls with dreads and students with djembe and clowns skateboards. I think you've got your idea of a "violent thug" a tad twisted.