{"id":8393,"date":"2022-03-25T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adf.uk\/?p=8393"},"modified":"2024-01-11T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:44:33","slug":"policing_bill_will_leave_free_speech_in_tatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/en-gb\/news\/policing_bill_will_leave_free_speech_in_tatters","title":{"rendered":"The Policing Bill will leave free speech in tatters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson once jovially remarked that the creation of ping pong on 19th-century British dining tables was what set Britain apart from the rest of the world. It seems this nation loves ping pong so much that we\u2019ve incorporated it into our legislative process. The controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, debated yesterday in the House of Lords, has been batted back and forth between the parliamentary chambers for months. It\u2019s a match with very high stakes indeed \u2013 with freedom of speech on the line.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for the to-and-fro is that neither the Lords nor the Commons have been willing to make any concessions whatsoever. The government has championed the bill as a response to the public outcry at the activities of campaign groups, like Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain. The Lords argue that the measures as drafted will not only penalise particularly disruptive activist groups, but normal people exercising their freedom of expression, too.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been here before. In 2013, the Lords successfully persuaded the Commons to remove the criminalisation of merely \u2018insulting\u2019 conduct from the Public Order Act 1986. And in 2014, they defeated the government\u2019s proposals to criminalise conduct \u2018capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person\u2019. So this tension isn\u2019t new.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading \u201cThe Policing Bill will leave free speech in tatters\u201d by Jeremiah Igunnubole (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2022\/03\/23\/the-policing-bill-will-leave-free-speech-in-tatters\/\">Sp!ked<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At best, this is willful blindness, at worst, an unabashed leap towards authoritarianism&#8221; ADF UK&#8217;s Jeremiah Igunnubole says of the PCSC bill, which would allow police to restrict noisy conduct that even risks causing &#8220;serious unease&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[898],"class_list":["post-8393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-uk-en-gb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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