The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill also grants local authorities, police and even private security firms sweeping powers to bar citizens from assembling lawfully in public spaces.
I really hope that's wrong because bar things already covered by the riot act the ability to congregate in public places is a seriously basic pillar of freedom, without we are no more than a dictatorship that just happens to change its figurehead every few years.

Also private companies? The day some braindead muppet from G4S tells me where I can congregate is the day I day I get arrested for something a tad more serious than being a nuisance.

I hope this is overhyped I know RT as a channel are a mouthpiece of the Russian state (Putin) so tend to overdo things.