An exciting run this morning up the forestry track where the dogs & I encountered 10 red deer - either rutting or demonstrating against corporate greed.
In the Independent this morning the editor is comparing the spreading protests to the revolutionary movement in Europe in 1848 - a movement which did manage to achieve some permanent changes for the better, but which overall has been regarded as a failure. His final point is probably his most cogent - that to create real change takes both clarity of purpose and endurance. And that must surely include enduring establishment obfuscation and compromise as well as enduring outright opposition and hostility. Even conservatives are now conceding that there might be some justification to what is happening, which could be seen as a vital breakthrough by common sense, or as a potential kiss of death to radicalism.
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