Josie Appleton - openDemocracy

Usurpación del espacio público en el Reino Unido: ¿cómo restringe nuestro derecho a protestar?

Tanto el aumento de los espacios públicos de propiedad privada (POPS) como las nuevas regulaciones estatales están limitando las oportunidades de ejercer uno de nuestros derechos básicos: el derecho a protestar. English

By Josie Appleton

/ 6 Dec 2017

Encroachment of public space in the UK: how does it restrict our right to protest?

Both the increase in privately owned public spaces (POPS) and new state regulations are limiting opportunities to exercise one of our basic rights: the right to protest.

By Josie Appleton

/ 6 Dec 2017

The busybody state is on the rise – and it is ticking us all off

In this extract from her new book Officious, Josie Appleton outlines the rise of the tick-box, tut, tut state and the threat it poses to civil society.

By Josie Appleton

/ 13 Dec 2016

No place for the young: the towns where childhood is being criminalised

Across England, local councils are banning young people from public space.

By Josie Appleton

/ 20 Jul 2015

Move along now: the law barring thousands of people from public spaces

Police now have free rein to create “dispersal zones” in public areas, allowing them to ban people for anything from street drinking to acting in a suspicious manner.

By Josie Appleton

/ 25 Jun 2015

May the pamphleteers return!

Laws which ban leafleting in city centres are destroying performance arts and an age old British tradition.

By Josie Appleton

/ 4 Jul 2014

The end of public space: one law to ban them all

Laws handing sweeping new powers to police and private security to restrict access to public space are extinguishing the diversity of civic life.

By Josie Appleton

/ 20 Jan 2014

Pavement injustice: the tyranny of on-the-spot fines

What does it mean for justice in Britain when criminal offences that were once tried in a court room are now dealt with on-the-spot, with the supposed 'offender' unable to argue their case?

By Josie Appleton

/ 9 Feb 2012

The right to leaflet is a basic liberty

A new report, "Leafleting: A Liberty Lost?", finds that councils are cracking down on leafleting by local groups such as arts organisations and the WI - yet are increasing spending on their own council leaflets

By Josie Appleton

/ 30 Jun 2011

The liberal tradition of the leafleteer is under threat

Leaflets have long lain at the heart of local democracy. This great liberal tradition is now under threat, not now from King or Church, but from the unexpected quarter of local authority environmental officials.

By Josie Appleton

/ 2 Feb 2011

A new type of activism is being born

Is activism dead – or is it blooming?

By Josie Appleton

/ 9 Nov 2009