police state Archives - Desperate Living

The song designed to show just how much opposition to the royal coronation will be buried hits the top 20 and is, predictably, ignored.

Scaring people into compliance and controlling the public discussion with vaguely worded laws and campaigns of moral panic.

The silencing of dissent – and why more government powers to control speech are the last thing we need.

Moral campaigners and social control freaks are trying to use the current crisis to force through more restrictions on how we live.

The UK courts decide that people should not be visited by the police for expressing unpopular, but legal, opinions.