{"id":1334,"date":"2026-02-09T09:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:25:58","slug":"brickbat-hecklers-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"Brickbat: Heckler&#039;s Veto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/c800x450-w800-q60\/uploads\/2026\/02\/england-police-london-neon-vest-800x450.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" alt=\"Police in London wearing neon vests | Flynt\/Dreamstime\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Police in London used public order laws to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jan\/22\/police-block-ukip-march-through-tower-hamlets-over-violence-fears\">block<\/a> a planned U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) march through Tower Hamlets because they were worried the demonstration\u2014which was framed around immigration and deportations\u2014could lead to serious violence from residents in the mostly Bangladeshi community. Officials claimed they were not banning the march because it could take place in other parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/02\/09\/brickbat-hecklers-veto-2\/\">Brickbat: Heckler&#039;s Veto<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\">Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/02\/09\/brickbat-hecklers-veto-2\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in London used public order laws to block a planned U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) march through Tower Hamlets because they were worried the demonstration\u2014which was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}