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Comment: On the front line with student protestors

There’s always something exciting about the police losing control. By Ian Dunt There’s no point pretending otherwise. It’s rare and dramatic and it’s hard to quell that frisson of excitement, that sense that something out of the ordinary is happening and you are there to witness it. For plenty of the students at today’s protest,… Read more »

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The protest turns ugly
Sketch: The siege of Millbank

…And how the student protest shot itself in the foot. By Peter Wozniak My, how it all went horribly wrong. What had started as a huge (and surprisingly coherent) outpouring of rational ill-feeling towards the raising of tuition fees became something resembling nothing so much as a medieval siege. Tonight the news is dominated by… Read more »