Monday, 28 March 2011

Democracy in Action?

We live in interesting times.  Regime change in Egypt, UN Resolution 1973 authorising a no fly zone over Libya and ecological disaster of biblical proportions in Japan. 

Meanwhile in London on Saturday 26 March 2011 approximately 250,000 people [source BBC Newsnight, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2011/03/a_snapshot_of_the_26_march_dem.html] took to the streets to demonstrate against the proposed cuts in budgets and services to some of the most vulnerable sections of British society, the biggest public demonstration in the city since 2003 against the Iraq War.