Birmingham’s No-Prayer Law—the Law That Has to Ask You if You’re Breaking It
UK Column’s policing commentator unpicks the unenforceable nonsense of one of Britain’s new wave of local council Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs), explains the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates and asks why the Church of England couldn’t care less about criminalised silent prayer. The tyrant state abhors an objective standard to which it is accountable;