Episode I: The Erosion Code
The legal staircase that hollowed out UK rights through crisis language, public order law, surveillance, and protest criminalisation.
Rights erosion, forensic fictions, and courtroom alchemy
Season I: Diagnosing Injustice is the entry point to SYSTEMIC. It traces the modern UK rights erosion staircase, following how successive Acts, statutory instruments, and policy shifts have narrowed protest, expression, and everyday refusal while presenting change as administrative necessity.
The focus is practical and evidentiary. Episodes examine legislation, policing practice, charging decisions, prosecution narratives, and courtroom procedure, with particular attention to how ambiguity is converted into certainty, and how coercion is presented as neutral process.
This season is deliberately UK specific and mechanism first. Questions of global geopolitics, sanctions, and external coercion are held within The Empire Codes. Here the concern is closer and more immediate: what happens to an ordinary person, in an ordinary case, once the machinery of the state begins to turn.
The material does not offer personal legal advice. It aims to build literacy in how systems function, so patterns of injustice can be recognised, documented, and challenged with clarity rather than shock.
The staircase, the storycraft, and the courtroom conversion of rights into permissions.
The legal staircase that hollowed out UK rights through crisis language, public order law, surveillance, and protest criminalisation.
How narrative, charging decisions, expert framing, and disclosure practices can turn ambiguity into certainty.
Procedure as theatre, leverage as routine, and the quiet mechanics that make coercion feel lawful.