Protest
The Just Stop Oil sentences were just
Direct action protestors are not immune from the operation of the law
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
This was a bad start to the week
More work for the BBC pronunciation unit
Turning the tables on coercion?
Lord Walney’s report on political extremism is valuable if flawed
Don’t ban anti-Israel marches
Principled and pragmatic arguments for prohibition are weak
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
Crime and consent
Acquittals should be based on objective evidence, not subjective sympathies