This week The Guardian newspaper have reported that Police are to demand new powers to arrest protesters for causing offence through the words they chant and the slogans on their placards and even headbands.

It's reported that the country's biggest force, the Metropolitan police, is to lobby the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, because officers believe that large sections of the population have become increasingly politicised, and there is a growing sense that the current restrictions on demonstrations are too light.

More on the story at the NETCU Watch website.