4. This would be the sort of law the Reviewer is meant to act as a bulwalk against in the aftermath of the kind of appalling terrorist attack we have just seen.

3. In giving this public response, the Reviewer risks legitimising a knee-jerk and disproportionate new terrorism law - further eroding the right to protest in the UK after years of it being under attack.

2. By not acknowledging this, the Independent Reviewer appeared to be describing a new regime that would incentivise governments to interpret terrorism law even more broadly where they wanted a reason to ban protests.

1. The discussion made no acknowledgement that the huge burden on police in protests currently is due to a political decision to proscribe a direct action group - huge numbers of police are now required to carry out mass arrests of peaceful protesters under terrorism law.