… what are you laughing at? Change the name and you are the subject of the story” (Horace, Satires and Epistles. London: Penguin 2005: 5) In November 2010, British students staged a series of demonstrations in several cities of the UK and Northern Ireland....
On 14 April 2011, the High Court of England and Wales ruled, in R (on the application of Joshua Moos and Hannah McClure) v The Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, that the police had acted unlawfully in “containing” (aka kettling) certain G20 protestors on 1...
Lord Justice Bingham once described the Rule of Law as ‘the cornerstone of a democratic society.’ Although on the face of it this constitutional principle might be associated with the idea that law and order reign, the doctrine’s deeper implications...
A short poem inspired by the student protests, mainly on the ‘kettling of kettling’ idea used by friends and supporters of injured protestor Alfie Meadows. They created something of a ‘Russian doll’ effect by surrounding the police at their headquarters...
“The full force of the law must be brought against violent protesters,” David Cameron repeats his mantra, once again, on the evening of 9 December, following the fourth instance of targeted property damage and clashes with the police coming from within the groundswell...
