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Voices: The crackdown on face masks at protests isn’t really about masks at all

Source: REUTERS

The Tories’ new plan to fine people £1,000 – or jail them for a month if they cover their faces at protests – could be likened to an elephant’s ear.

You know: that old story about the blindfolded people who touch different parts of an elephant to figure out what it is? The one who grabs the ear thinks it’s a leaf… the one who grabs the trunk thinks it’s a snake? And each of them think they are right, because they only have their limited experience to

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