Britain’s Year of Arresting Pensioners As Terrorists Has Taken a Hatchet to Our Civil Liberties

https://novaramedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-04-11T141428Z_849211655_MT1SOPAMPOPEA7266123_RTRMADP_3_SOPA-864x567.jpg" width="644" />A year and a day ago, octogenarian priest Sue Parfitt told Novara Media, “we cannot be bystanders”.

Moments later, she became one of the first people in the country to be arrested under a draconian new law that many didn’t believe could be enforced.

Parfitt had, of course, defied the proscription of direct action group […]