RT @Thelma_DWalker
Labour abstained on the #NationalSecurityBill vote in the Lords last night. They did not join the Greens, Liberals and Independents in the lobby ,so the Tories won. This is how low Labour have sunk.

1. Starmer's Labour Party backs #NationalSecurityBill
2. Labour peers support this brutal authoritarian law
3. Labour-Tory duopoly: two cheeks of the same fascist arse
4. Peers (who face no threat of election loss) dumbly backing a govt power grab makes 🇬🇧 House of Lords obsolete
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RT @GreenJennyJones
Things did not go well last night in the Lords on the #NationalSecurityBill, where we lost several votes. I called a vote on prote…
https://twitter.com/GreenJennyJones/status/1631174925347180545

It is telling that government will swiftly make changes to proposed legislation after the Telegraph kicks up a stink, but shows no movement when other media actors raise criticisms - as with e.g. the Online Safety Bill.

#tories #NationalSecurityBill #OnlineSafetyBill

https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/national-security-bill-journalists-public-interest-defence/

DRACONIAN NEW #ESPIONAGE LAWS

Are people in the #UK aware of the severe and sweeping new draconian laws being put forward in the name of "modernising" #espionageLaws?

Things like life-sentences from the current two-year jail sentence etc.

#NationalSecurityBill #OfficialSecretsAct #publicInterestDefense #chillingEffect #spying #foreignSpy #arbitraryLawfare #JeremyCorbyn #EdwardSnowden #JulianAssange

RT @Nikwilliams2
While the Government has moved to amend the #NationalSecurityBill, the bill is still a significant threat to #mediafreedom in the UK. My piece for @Telegraph ahead of today's session in the House of Lords https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/28/national-security-bill-threatens-democracy/

Do government amendments to prevent the potential prosecution of investigative journalists under the national security bill go far enough? | Barry White

#Bylines #NationalSecurityBill #Journalism
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/limited-changes-proposed-to-national-security-bill/

The past two days have seen two Council of Europe Safety of Journalists Platform alerts documenting serious threats to media freedom in the UK, the first a Level 2 alert following the recent arrest of three journalists reporting on Just Stop Oil protests and the second a Level 1 alert relating to the UK government's National Security Bill.

https://fom.coe.int/en/pays/detail/13050458

#pressfreedom #mediafreedom #nationalsecuritybill #juststopoil

Email your #MP about saving #journalism #NationalSecurityBill

https://do.opendemocracy.net/nsb-amendment