Our civil rights took a pummelling yesterday after Britain’s highest court upheld 90-year-old peace campaigner John Catt’s place on a “domestic extremism” database.

War veteran Mr Catt vowed to fight the Supreme Court verdict, saying he had “no option” but to appeal with the European Court of Human Rights.

Four judges overruled a Court of Appeal decision made last year stating that maintaining the campaigner’s details on the National Domestic Extremism Database was an intrusion on Mr Catt’s private life.