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19 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Alexi McCammond loses her job at Teen Vogue because of tweets she sent when she was 17. BBC Breakfast presenters told to apologise for failing to show sufficient respect for the flag. Censorship is demonstrably out of control on right and left politics.co.uk/comment/2021/0…
The usual kickback against this is that it's both-sides-ism. But sometimes both sides of political disputes do have similar problems and that does not become irrelevant because Trump happened to shat out his mouth that one time.
We're trapped in a situation where parts of left insist their censorship does not exist, or should be redefined as harmless, while parts of the right can only conceive of censorship as something the left do.
But these values do not survive unless both sides - sorry not sorry - police their own tribe, instead of pretending only the other side has a problem.

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Anti-protest bill: Freedom dies in silence

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This is a law enforcing the silencing of protestors. But the most alarming thing about it was not its provisions. It was the silence from ministers about what it contained and the silence from Tory backbenchers about their duty to scrutinise it.
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Day two of the anti-protest bill debate is going to start in about 15mins. For some unfathomable reason which I now deeply regret, I have committed to live tweeting it.
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The police bill "may create uncertainty by giving far too much discretion to the police in determining this balance, and far too much power to the executive to change the law by decree if it chooses" conservativehome.com/platform/2021/…
This is a very interesting joint piece by Brexiter Steve Baker & Remainer Dominic Grieve for ConHome. It may encourage some Tories to take a closer look at the bill they have been defending.
But it ends with a very one-the-one-hand-and-on-the-other section which pretty much sets the battle for committee stage. Basically saying to MPs: vote it through for now and we'll see if we can fix the troublesome bits as it progresses.
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Right, you know that shit is fucked up because I'm going to do a live thread of the Commons debate.
If you are not interested in the policing bill, please mute this thread now, because I suspect it's going to be very long.
We've got Priti Patel up in the Commons at 3:30pm to make a statement about the police attack on the vigil over the weekend. Then the debate on the policing bill starts. It'll go on until 10pm, then restart again tomorrow, when there'll be a vote.
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Quick thread on an aspect of the policing bill which has been under-discussed: the provisions on trespass. This section targets Gypsies and Travellers.
They are groups who very few people give a damn about and have been targeted by governments throughout the centuries. It is happening again now.
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publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill…

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