As a closing point before I go to bed, and another sort of conclusion to to my post below, I have to mention that the role of a democratic state isn't only to manage threats against commercial l… (View Post)

Well, to begin with I would hardly describe myself as opposed to all state authority ; I take a social democratic view on redistribution for instance, and I think the state always has a license to in… (View Post)

But XR haven't been able to organise protest on anything like this scale ; what you're describing, relative to what's happened over the last five years in the UK, is not really the dai… (View Post)

If disruptive is defined by chanting and waving a placard, then nearly all demonstrations could be classed as disruptive. This is exactly the kind of danger many of us, and I have no problem to inclu… (View Post)

Hear hear ! Excellent post. (View Post)