Priti Patel's Policing Bill, currently being forced through Parliament, aims to suppress dissent.
It gives the police arbitrary powers to shut down any protest, based on deliberately woolly definitions of "noise", "impact", and "unease".
It radically increases the potential prison sentences involved, up to 10 years for causing "serious annoyance".
And one of its key aims is to clamp down on climate activism - effectively turning the police into agents of repression for the suicidal fossil fuel status quo.
It's a recipe for a police state, that belongs on the statute books of authoritarian regimes, like China or Belarus.
There is widespread opposition to it on many fronts, but not amongst the people who have the power to actually stop it - Tory MPs and Peers.
Which is strange, as many of them spend their time denouncing repressive dictatorships, and defending the superior liberties of the West.
