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George Orwell noticed the tendency of repressive law to degenerate into farce when truth becomes a lie and common sense is heresy.
This is worth remembering now that the solicitor general, Michael Tomlinson KC, has concluded that it is right to take action against a #climate campaigner for holding up a sign outside a criminal court, simply proclaiming one of the fundamental principles of the common law: the right of a jury to decide a case according to its conscience.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/27/trudi-warner-english-courts-juries 
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