And when those new coercive powers are introduced, then what follows will prompt another round of more coercive powers for the state, and then another, and then another.

The UK is trapped in an illiberal spiral.

Is there such a thing as a legal impossibility if the system is corrupt and the parliament sovereign?

In comparison with knife-welding youths it’s unaccountably angry old people who pose a much greater threat to Britain’s social stability.