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Arrests outside the Royal Courts of Justice
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Arrests outside the Royal Courts of Justice
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, the blue bibs - intelligence gatherers - are hovering around the Defend Our Juries protest.
Don't talk to them
Don't talk to them
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, the blue bibs - intelligence gatherers - are hovering around the Defend Our Juries protest.
Don't talk to them
Don't talk to them
Back in 2017, Netpol offered the first British review of Alex's book "The End of Policing" and in 2018 hosted a launch at Conway Hall in London.
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when New York's Police Benevolent Association heard about his appointment... netpol.org/2017/09/18/t...
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when New York's Police Benevolent Association heard about his appointment... netpol.org/2017/09/18/t...
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Back in 2017, Netpol offered the first British review of Alex's book "The End of Policing" and in 2018 hosted a launch at Conway Hall in London.
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when New York's Police Benevolent Association heard about his appointment... netpol.org/2017/09/18/t...
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when New York's Police Benevolent Association heard about his appointment... netpol.org/2017/09/18/t...
How #copaganda works: Brighton & Hove Police know full well that riot shields only protect riot officers, not communities (and are useful weapons against opponents, as Bristol protesters know from experience). But normalising police violence requires relentless effort, even roping in your kids
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How #copaganda works: Brighton & Hove Police know full well that riot shields only protect riot officers, not communities (and are useful weapons against opponents, as Bristol protesters know from experience). But normalising police violence requires relentless effort, even roping in your kids
"Revised legislation would shift from conduct-based decisions (judging what individual protests and protesters are doing) to allowing police to exercise powers based on an imagined ‘saturation point’ of total disruption... If this sounds bad, that’s because it is" netpol.org/2025/11/19/s...
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"Revised legislation would shift from conduct-based decisions (judging what individual protests and protesters are doing) to allowing police to exercise powers based on an imagined ‘saturation point’ of total disruption... If this sounds bad, that’s because it is" netpol.org/2025/11/19/s...
New: a talk by Kevin Blowe of Netpol for @article11trust.bsky.social:
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
New: a talk by Kevin Blowe of Netpol for @article11trust.bsky.social:
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
#SundayWisdom Don't talk to the blue-bibbed Police Liaison Officers if you're at a protest, no matter how hard they try to "chat". They're intelligence gatherers
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#SundayWisdom Don't talk to the blue-bibbed Police Liaison Officers if you're at a protest, no matter how hard they try to "chat". They're intelligence gatherers
📣 The first six defendants of the Filton24 face trial from 17th November
📍 Woolwich Crown Court, London SE28 0EY
📆 First Day 17th November 2025 (scheduled for 10 weeks)
⏱️ 9.30am - 4.30pm
📍 Woolwich Crown Court, London SE28 0EY
📆 First Day 17th November 2025 (scheduled for 10 weeks)
⏱️ 9.30am - 4.30pm
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
📣 The first six defendants of the Filton24 face trial from 17th November
📍 Woolwich Crown Court, London SE28 0EY
📆 First Day 17th November 2025 (scheduled for 10 weeks)
⏱️ 9.30am - 4.30pm
📍 Woolwich Crown Court, London SE28 0EY
📆 First Day 17th November 2025 (scheduled for 10 weeks)
⏱️ 9.30am - 4.30pm
📣 Court Support Callout the Southampton Leonardo 3
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
📣 Court Support Callout the Southampton Leonardo 3
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
Protest bans are a ‘display of state power’ - should we celebrate the police banning protests, when they are likely to weaponise their unprecedented powers against anti-racists in the future?
netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...
netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...
October 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Protest bans are a ‘display of state power’ - should we celebrate the police banning protests, when they are likely to weaponise their unprecedented powers against anti-racists in the future?
netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...
netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...
"Campaigners seldom win their demands overnight with just one demonstration and no other tactics. Why? Because government and corporate interests do not respond to polite pressure. Power concedes nothing without a fight" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
"Campaigners seldom win their demands overnight with just one demonstration and no other tactics. Why? Because government and corporate interests do not respond to polite pressure. Power concedes nothing without a fight" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
Resist new laws restricting ‘cumulative protests’
"if the government wants to avoid repeated protest marches, maybe the answer is to look at its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative destruction of the environment and its cumulative complicity in genocide" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
"if the government wants to avoid repeated protest marches, maybe the answer is to look at its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative destruction of the environment and its cumulative complicity in genocide" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
October 28, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Resist new laws restricting ‘cumulative protests’
"if the government wants to avoid repeated protest marches, maybe the answer is to look at its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative destruction of the environment and its cumulative complicity in genocide" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
"if the government wants to avoid repeated protest marches, maybe the answer is to look at its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative destruction of the environment and its cumulative complicity in genocide" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...
At today's United Families and Friends Campaign rally opposite Downing Street. Jean Charles de Menezses' cousin Patricia is speaking – still campaigning for other families 20 years after Jean was assassinated by the Metropolitan Police
October 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
At today's United Families and Friends Campaign rally opposite Downing Street. Jean Charles de Menezses' cousin Patricia is speaking – still campaigning for other families 20 years after Jean was assassinated by the Metropolitan Police
Front page of this morning's 'The National'.
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
October 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Front page of this morning's 'The National'.
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
Good article that at least acknowledges that the "increasingly sinister securitisation of football fans at matches" is a problem – and includes this dig at Home Office bullshit that made us laugh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Good article that at least acknowledges that the "increasingly sinister securitisation of football fans at matches" is a problem – and includes this dig at Home Office bullshit that made us laugh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As the political establishment tries to focus attention on whether banning hooligans is good or bad, Birmingham remains focused on the bigger picture – why is Israel allowed to remain in international football while it commits genocide?
🗓️ November 6th
🕕 6pm
📍Holte End entrance on Trinity Road
🗓️ November 6th
🕕 6pm
📍Holte End entrance on Trinity Road
October 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
As the political establishment tries to focus attention on whether banning hooligans is good or bad, Birmingham remains focused on the bigger picture – why is Israel allowed to remain in international football while it commits genocide?
🗓️ November 6th
🕕 6pm
📍Holte End entrance on Trinity Road
🗓️ November 6th
🕕 6pm
📍Holte End entrance on Trinity Road
Some British government ministers don't want anyone to talk about genocide in Gaza or Britain's complicity in it www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
October 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Some British government ministers don't want anyone to talk about genocide in Gaza or Britain's complicity in it www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Date for your diary: United Families and Friends Campaign Annual Remembrance Procession
🗓️ Saturday 25 October
📍 Trafalgar Square,
🕕 12 noon
🗓️ Saturday 25 October
📍 Trafalgar Square,
🕕 12 noon
October 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Date for your diary: United Families and Friends Campaign Annual Remembrance Procession
🗓️ Saturday 25 October
📍 Trafalgar Square,
🕕 12 noon
🗓️ Saturday 25 October
📍 Trafalgar Square,
🕕 12 noon
On Tuesday we warned that the Home Secretary could "ban more groups as rebranded versions of Palestine Action. Legislation already makes this possible".
Now it's happening
Now it's happening
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
On Tuesday we warned that the Home Secretary could "ban more groups as rebranded versions of Palestine Action. Legislation already makes this possible".
Now it's happening
Now it's happening
A guest post on the Netpol website by Medb McDaid: news that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been involved in arrests at a London protest should be a matter of public concern. The PSNI has no business in Ireland, let alone Britain netpol.org/2025/10/08/t...
October 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A guest post on the Netpol website by Medb McDaid: news that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been involved in arrests at a London protest should be a matter of public concern. The PSNI has no business in Ireland, let alone Britain netpol.org/2025/10/08/t...
Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
Experimenting with a t-shirt design in aid of the recently revived 'debate' about what is, or isn't, "Britishness".
October 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Experimenting with a t-shirt design in aid of the recently revived 'debate' about what is, or isn't, "Britishness".
Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
October 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
VICTORY: citing "lack of evidence", prosecutors have dropped the trial against the Drax 15. They never had a case, but they kept defendants waiting for a year to somehow justify an astonishing £3 million police operation. This is yet another example of the repression of protest rights in Britain
September 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
VICTORY: citing "lack of evidence", prosecutors have dropped the trial against the Drax 15. They never had a case, but they kept defendants waiting for a year to somehow justify an astonishing £3 million police operation. This is yet another example of the repression of protest rights in Britain