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Peaceful demonstration against anti-protest legislation turned violent last night in Bristol. Police vans were set alight, a police station was attacked and officers injured after what started as a sitdown protest escalated as riot police…
I have walked across Clapham Common frequently. When I moved to London more than 20 years ago, it was the way home from friends’ houses, from the pub, from the bus. But even if the place wasn’t familiar to me, the experiences women have…
The old phrase is that politicians ‘campaign in poetry but govern in prose’. The truth is that Boris Johnson doesn’t care much for governing and instead seeks to continue campaigning poetically, quoting Latin and Greek texts taught at Eton…
The police, crime, sentencing and courts bill will be felt in marginalised communities more than any other. Those of us who continuously rejected the covert human intelligence sources bill in recent months did so partly due to the impact…
Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer went head-to-head this afternoon. But the Labour leader was careful to emphasise a constructive approach as he devoted all of his questions to violence against women and girls. He told MPs that the murder of…
Conservative MPs have coordinated an attack against Labour tonight. After the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill was passed by the House of Commons at second reading, Labour tweeted a graphic with the message: “Under the Tories, rape…
How often have we heard the notion that somehow liberty is an integral part of the English character? That we fortunate few in this country are somehow different from the rest of humanity. Not for us authoritarianism, or autocracy, or god…
The view of former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer on how rape has effectively been decriminalised in this country would be welcome, I wrote in this morning email on Friday. The Labour leader has indeed shared his thoughts this…
Nick Thomas-Symonds has argued that the police mishandling of the Sarah Everard vigil on Saturday should serve as a "red warning light" that the government should not be "rushing through laws cracking down on protest". The Shadow Home…
"Rights worth having are unruly things. Demonstrations and protests are liable to be a nuisance. They are liable to be inconvenient and tiresome, or at least perceived as such by others who are out of sympathy with them." These were the…
Leader Keir Starmer has agreed at the last minute that the Labour Party should vote against the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill due to be debated in parliament this week. But alarmingly his original position was that Labour MPs…
MPs will debate giving the police greater powers today as the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill returns to parliament. The controversial legislation, which would grant powers to curb actions that "result in serious disruption to the…
