Who knew that this could happen? I didn't. But it turns out that the Sentencing Act 2020 allows judges to send people down for crimes for which they have not been tried or convicted, with far longer sentences and far more draconian conditions than they would otherwise face. It gets worse - read on.
Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+đ§”
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If the Suffragettes were active today, there is not a shadow of a doubt that Keir Starmer's government would have banned them as a terrorist group, and insisted there are plenty of other ways in which women can register their dissent. Why don't they write letters to their MPs?