One woman was arrested yesterday at the #Usembassyprotest for holding a placard repeating the words of writer Sarah Helm, the wife of national security advisor Jonathan Powell. Helm wrote, “God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action” in a post on (another social media site) on 15 October.

Two days later, the Met said the post “did not meet the criminal threshold” – and yet on Saturday its officers arrested a protester for using the same phrase, except that the word “authors” had been substituted for “retirees”.

Daft, yes it is

These 'inconsistencies' make a mockery of the proscription