Tens of thousands of people have marched in London today to demonstrate against the Government's disregard for the live music industry, with sign holders demanding that ministers "let the music play".
A huge crowd has descended on central London today to make their feelings known to the Government about the endless restrictions we have been living under for over 15 months.
Protesters have gathered in London today to demonstrate against the Government's delay to the lifting of lockdown restrictions, holding signs reading "no more lockdowns" and "your obedience is prolonging this nightmare".
Thousands joined a "Unite for Freedom" rally today in London today, protesting against the Government's continuation of lockdown. Signs read: "My body, my choice", "we do not consent" and "you have no power over us".
The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted – in response to a Freedom of Information request – that "all offences charged under the Coronavirus Act were incorrectly charged".
Germany's domestic spy agency is monitoring anti-lockdown activists for suspected sedition. Protesters are said to have an agenda that goes far beyond the Government's response to Covid.
Thousands of people have gathered in London today in opposition to lockdown and to the idea of vaccine passports. Banners held by those in the "Unite for Freedom" protest read "no new normal" and "no health passport".
Thousands of people have gathered in London to protest against the Government's lockdown. Meanwhile, in Switzerland, many more formed a "silent protest" against Covid restrictions in the small northern town of Liestal.
In an original piece for Lockdown Sceptics, former Parliamentary researcher Dr James Moreton Wakeley asks why the police are enforcing lockdown restrictions with such wild abandon.
by James Moreton Wakeley One of the most sublime hymns to England is to be found at the end of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Returning from the bitter battles of the Spanish Civil War, wounded in the neck, and having narrowly avoided further bodily harm in the bloodily fratricidal politics of the doomed Spanish Republic, Orwell looks forward to returning to a land at peace. To an idyll of "railway-cuttings smothered in wild flowers" and "slow-moving streams bordered by willows", inhabited by a gentle folk wearing bowler hats whose streets are adorned with "posters telling of cricket matches and Royal weddings". Fighting in the ranks of an international socialist movement though Orwell was, Homage to Catalonia is replete with such heartfelt musings on England. First among such sentiments is the notion that the police are nothing to be feared. Unlike the highly-politicised and faction-riven police forces of Republican Spain, or other such continental gendarmeries, Orwell saw the British bobby as a cheery friend of the honest citizen, who polices with consent rather than through force, and who would only go so far to arrest someone if they had, or were strongly suspected to have, broken the law. Saturday night’s footage from the vigil held in honour of Sarah Everard makes this image as remote from our age as the rest of Orwell’s ...
