“I would just remind everyone that the person who has got accountability for the London Met is the Labour London Mayor,” she says.
As some march to condemn a current conflict on Saturday, many will observe the two-minute silence at 11am. They will reflect on the impact of past conflicts which have forged Britain and are an intrinsic part of our national story.
One can give the police more legal powers, update the official definition of extremism, and all that. But it won’t produce different outcomes without a sea-change in how senior officers approach public order policing.
We should own up: we don’t put a flag in our windows because we don’t want a brick through the glass. Equally, lapel pins are out: who wants to invite abuse? Intimidated, good people are doing nothing.
The current minimal-confrontation approach too often seems to leave officers tacitly enforcing the codes of the ugliest and most violent sections of society.
If JSO’s house style prevents us engaging with the meaningful questions of how we best combat change without a decline in living standards, then their main contribution to the debate is lowering the quality.
If ministers want to foster a general atmosphere of equal treatment for lawful opinion, institutions such as local authorities and the police must set the example.
If Suella Braverman wants to restore “common-sense policing”, she should start by overhauling the Public Order Act.
For three years, ethnic minority kids, in France as elsewhere, have been told that society is rigged against them, and that any failures in their lives are products of institutional racism.
You don’t need to buy Nigel Farage’s wild claims about MI5 being behind the closure of his accounts to see that banking is too important to modern life to let people be shut out of it on private whim.
The right to protest does not confer protection on any activity or tactic with political motivations. The majority have the right to enjoy national occasions in peace.
As drafted it would let many of those who block highways and vandalise property get away with it, just as they do today.
A woman has just been arrested not even for speaking, but for thinking, the wrong thoughts. And it is a policy that could be rolled out across the country.
Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil use a tactical handbook written by a true fanatic, and an effective response must recognise this.
Of course, children have a right to a voice, but protests should be occurring at the weekend or in holidays – not on school time.