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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · 2d

Working on research of direct relevance to this - police responses to JSO slow marches both sides of the Regs Suella Braverman introduced in 2023 that unlawfully brought in a similar power.

It would be the largest expansion in general assembly/procession regulation since 1986.

#protest #law

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · 5d

Also, the police don't have to arrest the protesters. They have operational discretion over where they allocate their resources, plus of course considerations under the HRA. Undoubtedly they are being put between a rock and a hard place, but arrest still needs to be necessary, not merely convenient.

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Sep 6

How many of us are studying history anyway?

Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 29

The HC interim injunction re the Epping hotel has been overturned by the CoA. The judge had failed to take into account that the order may encourage more protests, and that the full hearing would be heard in a number of weeks anyway.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Court of appeal revokes ban on Epping hotel housing asylum seekers

Home Office had argued that interim injunction for breach of planning was being used to stop protests

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 23

Very likely unworkable as part of a solution, but to me a key difference is the greater likelihood of those using abortion clinics (and seperately of asylum seekers) having experienced and/or experiencing trauma, such that protest may exacerbate mental health issues.

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 20

The Judge appeared to think that the protesters were against the unlawful use of the hotel, rather than the mere existence of asylum seekers in the UK. Do they think that if they were moved into lawful local housing instead the protesters would stop? I doubt it.

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is hilarious but also underlines the danger of a strict liability offence where the police only have to prove that your slogan gives rise to a reasonable suspicion that you support a proscribed organisation.

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 18

It is surely threatening words capable of causing alarm or distress though, which is contrary to s.5 POA 86. Also arguably racially aggravated. If that were a pro-palestine march calling for the deaths of certain social groups, that person would have been arrested in a flash.

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 16

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Demonstrators arrested at Palestine Action event in Norwich

More than a dozen people with signs supporting the proscribed group are held at a Norwich protest.

www.bbc.co.uk

Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 16

Arrests in Norwich today for expressing support for PA. Interesting that the police quoted the reasons for intervening from the Public Order Act 1986. They have nothing to do with the powers in the Terrorism Act 2000 which were used to arrest the protesters. Link to article in post below.

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 12

Imagine if a council applied for an inunction to ban the use of fossil fuels to prevent the disruption of environmental protesters.

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 12

Bizzare turn. Council applies for injunction, not to stop the protesters outside the hotel (as would usually happen in protest cases) but to stop the hotel being used to house asylum seekers. Victim blaming at its finest.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Epping council applies for asylum injunction over The Bell Hotel - BBC News

There is a risk of community tensions escalating in Epping, the authority says.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 12

It didnt happen over a weekend. It's been creeping forward for a long time. The wider shifts in public order policing faciliated by new acts have helped lay the ground work for people peacefully protesting to be arrested en mass.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Aug 11

"This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism"

Keir Starmer government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, & others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo.

This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism

Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, and others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime.

zeteo.com

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 12

It didnt happen over a weekend. It's been creeping forward for a long time. The wider shifts in public order policing faciliated by new acts have helped lay the ground work for people peacefully protesting to be arrested en mass.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Aug 11

"This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism"

Keir Starmer government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, & others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo.

This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism

Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, and others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime.

zeteo.com

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 11

Not charged yet. That's likely because they were taken to temporary pop-up sites to log their personal details and bailed pending a charging decision by the CPS. Charges likely to come later.

Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Aug 11

Such 2(nonsense × nonsense).

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · Aug 10

The damage that the proscription of Palestine Action (and undoubtedly some of the policing of this law) is doing to police legitimacy in this country is an unfolding nightmare.

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Jul 25

Where are these legitimate concerns? Are they in the room with us now?

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Jul 24

According to Bluesky facescan software I am not an adult. Can I get child prices again now?

Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Jul 24

How are these proportionate bail conditions? Especially when they are likely to remain in place for upwards of a year until trial. And why exclude from the city centre anyway? What purpose does that serve?

audreywhiteredrosa.bsky.social @audreywhiteredrosa.bsky.social · Jul 23

My bail conditions exclude me from entering the very street I live in, it effectively means I am breaking my bail conditions if I step out of my own home. My address is well within the bail map area. It is effectively house arrest.

Netpol @netpol.org · Jul 21

"There’s two things to be afraid of in this country and one is that we lose everything we are proud of – the ability to speak out – and the other is that we would ever be involved in a genocide". Now bail conditions exclude Audrey White from Liverpool city centre www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's got these vibes.

Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Jul 22

Government that fans flames gets annoyed when fire spreads.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

Downing Street condemns protests outside hotel ‘housing asylum seekers’

Six arrested after Sunday night’s disturbances at Essex Hotel, which follow protests on Thursday when eight officers were injured

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Jul 21

Can Bluesky please give us the ability to bookmark or save posts? You dont want to 'like' all posts you want to keep tabs on for future reference.

Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Jul 20

With all the discourse about the term Terrorism and its application, found this nugget at Bishopsgate library last week. It's in reference to a violent clash between the Met and a group of around 20,000 protesters in Trafalgar Square in 1887, labelled Bloody Sunday at the time.

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Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social · Jul 19

Shame they didnt have Captain Croc make a guest appearance.