It was reported last week that a coalition of climate change protesters has been told to pay for a planned protest, or permission to hold it will not be granted. When The Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) approached the London Metropolitan Police (MPS) to arrange the event, the police force declined to help, telling the group … Continue reading Paying to protest: the commodification of free speech
Category: Politics
The BBC, the Greens, and those leadership debates
Any debate about whether there is bias in the BBC has finally been settled as Beeb rejects a 200,000-name petition to include the Greens in the leadership debates and confirms their exclusion. Unsurprisingly, neither the petition nor the exclusion seemed to be mentioned in Beeb's online news at the time of writing. Read more here … Continue reading The BBC, the Greens, and those leadership debates