Secret trials, secret prisoners and no right to talk to your MP?

This is not just a hat tip to Anna Racoon, its a fully fledged doffing of the cap! Anna's blog is often informative but this

https://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/hyper-injunctions-the-secret-misery/

is a chilling wake up call to anyone with the slightest care for civil liberties and freedom of the individual. if this sort of thing was being practiced in north Korea or Zimbabwe you wouldn't be surprised but here in Britain you would expect the mainstream media to be reporting the way state funded institutions and there represtives are bullying our fellow citizen. the fact that they are not reporting it in anyway says as much of them as it does of the bully's

beneath is a quote from the hansard transcript which certainly lept out at me. for all the faults of out politicians and our system the fact that back benchers are using there committee time over to bringing this to public light is lordable and deserves praise which i usually refrain from bestowing on our "hon & rt hon" friends. if you read one thing today this should be it!

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John Hemming MP. "I am not the only one having problems. When I talk to colleagues of all parties, they all find similar problems with the aggressive way in which apparatchiks of the state attempt to ban constituents from talking to MPs. We have judges creating situations where it is made an imprisonable offence to tell an MP that a case exists. I do not think that is right, transparent or accountable"

read the full transcript