http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210317-153936-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/uk-silence-protest/ “Yes, you can… but only if you’re quiet” Mead, David eng 2021-03-17 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 police Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill Right to Protest United Kingdom Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The UK is undertaking changes to its ‘law of protest’, which have the capacity drastically to re-orientate the relationship between citizen and state in favour of the latter. The draft Bill takes little or no account of the important role protest plays in a free society and coincides with police officers forcefully breaking up a peaceful vigil to mark the murder of Sarah Everard last week. These images highlight how unbalanced, unnecessary and unprincipled the changes are – many of its planned changes seek to plug non-existent gaps.