Several hundred #ExtinctionRebellion protesters blocking the road outside the Bank of England.
Today’s #ExtinctionRebellion protest is a mass breach of bail conditions, with rebels arrested over the past two weeks breaking their conditions by returning to the City of London.
“I’ve been arrested over 200 times in many different countries, I don’t think one more time is going to make much of a difference.”
Veteran peace campaigner Angie Zelter, 70, who is breaking a bail condition stipulating that she stays out of the City. #ExtinctionRebellion
“It feels quite wrong that I have been criminalised for doing what’s so logically and obviously the right thing given the emergency situation that we’re in.”
Team GB Olympian Etienne Stott MBE, who is also breaking bail conditions by joining #ExtinctionRebellion in the City.
“It seems extraordinarily petty to arrest us for obstructing when we’ve just had a summer of fires and floods and a heat dome, all over the world, because of the climate crisis.”
Simon Milner-Edwards, 64, from Manchester, whose bail conditions say he must leave the M25 area.
#ExtinctionRebellion targeted the Bank of England as a symbol of London’s financial district, through which they say flows 15% of all the world’s financing for fossil fuel projects.
Back in the City, where #ExtinctionRebellion are on the march again, attempting to raise awareness of rising sea levels, as their latest rebellion draws to a close.
#ExtinctionRebellion’s protesters have paused in front of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.
“Lloyds of London is an insurer of fossil fuel projects at a vast scale across the world and it’s the turning of the wheels of finance driving more and more of these destructive projects.”
#ExtinctionRebellion activist George Barda, from Bristol, on why protesters are here.
“We’re from the Bargee Travellers Association, we live on boats that don’t have home moorings. We’re here in solidarity with other travellers and also for the right to protest.”
Olivia, right, 32, from Peterborough, at the #KillTheBill protest.
“I’m here dressed as the grim reaper to mourn what is in effect the death of democracy .... We need to stop this bill going through because it’s a complete erosion of our civil liberties.”
BREAKING: Elizabeth Denham, @ICOnews information commissioner, has confirmed the @Conservatives broke the law by racially profiling 10m voters in 2019.
Appearing at the @CommonsDCMS select committee, Denham insisted that the Conservative party had destroyed the data when her office recommended it, so that enforcement action was unnecessary.
But, she added: "We made the recommendation that they destroy the data because they didn't have the legal basis to collect it ... it was illegal to collect."
The @metpoliceuk are rolling out their first operational use of live facial recognition surveillance in Stratford, east London, today.
They have deployed a single van with its cameras pointed at the entrance to Stratford shopping centre, capturing the faces of people walking out towards the station.
About 30 police are standing around in clusters, peering at smartphones to which facial recognition positive matches are sent, to decide whether to make a stop.