> they're just waiting for the opportunity to do a
> social media trawl and put all the troublesome
> brown people and genuine lefties through non-jury
> trials and put them in prison for 10 years.

One of the oldest transparent media manipulations has been universally in evidence in connection with our new de-jurification of the court system: the one where the reporter turns into a stenographer/propagandist by way of pretending to have knowledge concerning someone's feelings, inner states, beliefs, wishes and intentions. Thus the latest Starmer/Lammy act of constitutional slash-and-burn has been relentlessly credited with the 'aim' of reducing the case backlog. This is how you know you're in the presence of something bad that the Establishment news media unambiguously support: no-one raises any doubt about whether the ostensible intention might not be the real intention. And who, after all, could object to 'just wanting to get more cases heard'...?

Whereas for me, it's pretty apparent that the real 'aim' of this move (along with digital ID, not even hinted at in the manifesto...) is to enable this disgusting government to have a team of bewigged, sour-faced authoritarians rubber-stamping life-destroying convictions onto every kind of protestor (genocide, climate, corruption...) at a rate of 500 a day. You'll note that one of Leveson's valuable suggestions got kicked into touch right away: the idea that two magistrates should sit with the jury-less judge in order to provide some balancing moiety of lay input. Not required, it seems...

M.