Recent demonstrations against Air France executives and London’s Cereal Killer Caf turned grisly,but past marches have achieved great things. Or have they?Anne McElvoy, senior editor at the Economist I left the Tory party conference final week and a gauntlet of protesters shouting despise-you-very-much messages at everyone who passed through security. To the protestors, and any other human beings,whether journalists, policy wonks or charity workers, or were simply “scum”,“heartless” or some other full-spectrum bad adjective, by virtue of being there.
Street protest has a site in democracies, or but also limits in a civil society.
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Source: theguardian.com