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It's a dirty job (and nobody wants to do it)

Oh God, What Now?

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The Government's Public Order Bill Has Been Abandoned

The government's public order bill has been absolutely spanked in the Lords. They've lost a series of votes on a lot of the controversial measures in the bill about slow marching and stopping protests that you think might cause disruption. Last night they suffered the biggest of those defeats, 284 to 209 votes on the notion of police using stop and search even where they don't have a suspicion. And I hope this means they rethink this awful piece of legislation.

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