My tube this morning was adorned with little paper doves, cut from scrap and hanging from the overhead handrail by bits of old string. Whoever made them had written little notes on them, like ‘NO CO2AL’, ‘End Climate Chaos’ and ‘Be the change you want in the world’.
I quite like protests like that, particularly as the police have been hyping up the potential for flying punches later when the G20 protests properly take hold.
What that’ll do to my chances of getting home at a decent time I don’t know, particularly as Liverpool Street is supposed to be one of the focal points.
Lots of businesses around there – and particularly the banks – have told their staff to dress down in case their suits make them targets, which highlights their generally outdated attitudes to work wear. If it’s OK for staff to come in wearing smart casual when there are protests on and the work will still be done, why can’t they do that every day?
