COMMENT: police ‘not knowing’ whether protest is permitted is deliberate – and it has to end

Sep 15, 2022 | Comment, Protest

There has been considerable press interest in the fairly small number of arrests (or threats of arrests) of anti-monarchists since the Queen’s death on 8 September. Protests have been nothing quite as dramatic as the hundreds who gathered outside of Buckingham Palace...

Want to protest against the monarchy? These are your rights!

Sep 15, 2022 | Protest

In recent days, there’s been outrage as anti-monarchy protesters have either been arrested or threatened with arrest. However, the arrests have also led to a lot of misinformation and alarmist statements about the law and our rights.  Firstly, protest is still...

Open Letter to the Met

Sep 8, 2022 | Protest, Rights

Extinction Rebellion protests: we need clarity about what to expect from the Metropolitan Police Actions planned in London in the coming months on the unprecedented global climate emergency, by Extinction Rebellion and other environmental campaigners, will...

Jury acquits Bristol protester who fought back against police violence

Aug 26, 2022 | Comment, Protest

A jury in Bristol took under an hour to unanimously acquit Ailsa Rauh of violent disorder and affray on 25th August. Ailsa was the latest person to face trial following the uprising in Bristol on 21st March 2021 when people gathered to both remember Sarah Everard and...

New report exposes the militarised nature of British policing

Aug 8, 2022 | Protest, Reports

Campaign Against Arms Trade and Netpol have released a report exposing the militarised nature of British policing. A Very British Problem: The Evolution of Britain’s Militarised Policing Industrial Complex exposes the increasingly blurry line between the police and...

Lost in the Matrix – how police surveillance is mapping protest movements

Aug 2, 2022 | Domestic Extremism, Protest

How can British police, who have struggled for so long to justify its surveillance on alleged “extremists”, ever hope to adequately categorise something as subjective as people’s political opinions? As Netpol asked in March 2021, how do campaigners become “aggravated...