Gideon HallettI know Home Secretary is the modern Grand Vizier, that thinking is not in the job description and public displays of authoritarianism are, but still…
If you are not free to do something every moment of every day, you are not free to do something.
(Whether you should is another matter, as is what happens if you impinge on the freedoms of others.)
If your protest is subject to the sayso of your superiors, what you have is a temporary licence, not a freedom.
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