Of all the Britons who say they love freedom, few are opposing the bill to sentence protesters to a year in prison.

I support the right to protest to demand the freedom to go unvaccinated -- though I think it is wrong actually go unvaccinated and risk spreading disease. I hope that everyone who supports the right to protest will join in the campaign to preserve that right.

Experience in the UK says that Omicron often spreads to everyone in a get-together, and comes on very fast.

They are asking people to take a home Covid test right before going to any get-together. The UK is making those tests readily available. The US seems not to want to pay for them.

Also, they are asking even vaccinated people who had contact with an infected person to take an at-home Covid test every day for the next week.

This is to slow the spread of Omicron.

*New rules on UK arms trade makes it "easier" to sideline human rights.*

*In a society driven by "gotchas" and self-righteousness, let’s be more ready to recognise our own failings and less hasty to judge others’.*

*Beijing is aiming for global ascendancy – but its leader’s vision of world dominion is centralised, oppressive and totalitarian.*

*Reporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a "great leap backwards" and says Hong Kong journalism is "in freefall."*