Tuesday briefing: What new plans to curb pro-Palestine Action demonstrations mean for our right to protest

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Each week, I'd spend a few minutes reading the list back in an attempt to lodge the word into my memory.
56% : The changes are supposed to reference and respond to the real anxiety felt by many British Jews as a result of the antisemitism that can sometimes infect anti-Israel movements.
48% : She has just announced a fresh tranche of anti-protest policies that would allow police to re-route, and potentially shut down protests which repeatedly take place in the same area because of their cumulative impact.
48% : To answer those questions, I spoke to Dr Richard Martin, an expert in the policing of protest at the London School of Economics.
46% : He thinks that it is the shared tactic of these two groups - which he defined as "a campaign of attrition where you keep protesting to effectively exhaust the police, to fill the custody suites" - that the government legislation is actually targeted at.
45% : The first, he explained, is that it seems Labour won't use the same low threshold of "more than minor" disruption that was ruled unlawful by the courts; and secondly, they won't try to slip the change in through regulations, but instead by amending the 1986 act - which will include greater parliamentary involvement and scrutiny, but also, makes it harder to subsequently amend.
45% : A bit of good news to remind you that the world's not all bad "As a child I devoured books until my eyes blurred," says the Guardian's Emma Loffhagen.
42% : In recent years, protesters have sought to justify their actions in court with a defence that they had a "reasonable" or "lawful" excuse if they had broken the law, in effect, requiring the prosecution to justify why a conviction outweighs the right to peaceful protest.
31% : In 2014, a backbench Labour MP named Shabana Mahmood lay on the floor of her local Sainsbury's in protest against the sale of products made in illegal Israeli settlements.
27% : The changes to the law would allow police officers to consider the cumulative impact of protest when deciding whether or not they are lawful, meaning they could potentially re-route or totally shut down protest they believe could cause serious disruption to local communities.

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