Down with Mandela
In Parliament Square there is a staute of Nelson Mandela, he of South African anti-apartheid fame. I heard him speak once, but unfortunately to do so I had to listen to some sanctimonous arsehole called Tony Bliar (misspelling deliberate), but that's another story. I understand that students are unhappy about the rise of tuition fees but I couldn't really understand why somebody thought it necessary to dawb Mr Mandela's statue with the pink paint that I saw on it this morning as I rode to court. Nor, if they simply wanted to protest was it necessary to write "fuck police" in big letters on Winston Churchill's statue. A few days ago I saw students protesting outside Parliament about the reduction in funding for school sports. They were well organised, very vocal, got themselves on the tele but managed to avoid closing the whole of central London and trashing the place.