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Between 1940 and 1946, under the Treachery Act, The British prosecuted and executed 19 spies who were working for the Germans. They captured more spies, but if their capture was not known to the public then they did not prosecute them but instead turned them to work against the Germans.

The Treachery Act was brought in quickly in 1940, largely at Churchill’s urging, because the authorities doubted whether under current legislation they could prosecute a foreign spy for treason.

And the reason for wanting to be able to prosecute for treason was that the punishment for the crime of treason was death. And the threat of death was thought to be a strong motivator to convince a captured spy to change allegiance.

An article in the newspaper about one person’s complaint about the claimed libellous comments by another person, mentioned a Norwich Pharmacal order by which a wronged person can get the details of otherwise anonymous twitterers.

A Norwich Pharmacal order is a court order for the disclosure of documents or information that is available in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is granted against a third party which has been innocently mixed up in wrongdoing, forcing the disclosure of documents or information.

The innocent party in this case would, of course, be Twitter.

A Norwich Pharmacal order was first granted in 1974 by the House of Lords in Norwich Pharmacal Co. v Customs and Excise Commissioners, a case concerning the alleged violation of a patent by unknown importers of the chemical subject to the patent.

Norwich Pharmacal orders are now granted in relation to other torts, including defamation, and breach of contract, as well as alleged criminal offences.

By the Justice and Security Act 2013, Norwich Pharmacal orders cannot be granted by the UK courts where disclosure of the material in question would cause damage to the public interest.

Who makes the case for what is and is not in the public interest? Can a third party, such as a representative of Government that is not a direct party to the action, ask that the identity not be revealed?

1. LITERARY– a protective or concealing covering.

2. HISTORICAL – the legal status of a married woman, considered to be under her husband’s protection and authority.

Coverture came from the legal fiction that a husband and wife were one person and that upon marriage, a woman’s legal rights and obligations were subsumed by those of her husband, in accordance with the wife’s legal status as a feme covert.

The fictions was abolished by various Acts in the 1800s relating to women’s property rights.

An unmarried woman, or feme sole, had the right to own property and make contracts in her own name.

Why do they do take the position they do?

I think it is fear. By seemingly taking a stand, they demonstrate superiority over the system and behind that, over the virus. And years of social media conditioning has robbed them of the ability to distinguish between social realities and biological realities.

Apparently – From non +‎ U (“characteristic of the upper classes”), coined by British linguist Alan S. C. Ross (1907–1980) in a 1954 article, and popularized by the English journalist and writer Nancy Mitford (1904–1973).