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BBC headline conceals important government defeat

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What is the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and how would it change protests?

Link: What is the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill and how would it change protests? - BBC News

This headline is the opposite of clickbait!
The London Economic headline is more revealing:

‘Democracy survives another day’: Government defeated 14 times over draconian police bill

Lol
Video: Kill the Bill activists ‘zoom bomb’ Patel Q&A. Host: ‘no idea how these leftists got in on the call’
Link: Video: Kill the Bill activists ‘zoom bomb’ Patel Q&A. Host: ‘no idea how these leftists got in on the call’ – SKWAWKBOX

That must be ‘leftists against draconian police powers’ then

(Hat tip to Tomski)

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Yikes… Ian Dunt…

But, yay, good for the Lords, reverting to their role of Official Opposition maybe, as in the early Thatcher years?

I quite liked this sardonic comment in yesterday’s WonkHE, unfortunately the piece has that characteristic tone of well-worded condescension typical of this source, and of HE generally, but not a bad opening:

Students who were made to pay £9,000 tuition fees for Zoom lectures should revolt, Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi says.[…] That’s the headline in the Mail, which does seem somewhat at odds with his government’s general view on protest embodied in the Police, crime, sentencing and courts bill.