This first of my regular newstatesman.com blogs finds me between my campaign for Brighton Pavilion and protesting in Kingsnorth, where I’ve been heavily involved in attempts to get the police to pull back from their campaign of harrassment of the camp.
Everyone who enters the site is being searched. Police officers are taking anything away that “could be used for illegal activity”, with efforts being made to strip protestors of such hardcore weapons of choice as biodegradable soap and toilet paper!
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