{"id":1341,"date":"2006-08-31T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/31\/hurrahs-all-round\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T16:47:33","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T16:47:33","slug":"hurrahs-all-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/hurrahs-all-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurrahs all round!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/5303558.stm\">This sounds like it was fun<\/a>. (Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/north_yorkshire\/5300560.stm\">this alternative protest&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I particularly approve of protesting against the lack of hat wearing in public life &#8211; some blame the last few decades&#8217; collapse of civil society and boom in crime on the welfare state, some on wishy-washy 1960s liberalism. Me, I blame the decline in hat wearing and the lack of well-groomed facial hair amongst today&#8217;s menfolk (and no, baseball caps and scraggly goatees most certainly do not count &#8211; a trilby or bowler coupled with a fine Kaiser Bill is very much the order of the day).<\/p>\n<p>I would have joined <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/see-you-tonight-at-free-speech-demo.html\">Rachel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickyog.net\/2006\/08\/31\/mass-lone-protest-is-go\/\">Justin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggerheads.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/tony_blair_owes.asp\">Tim<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nether-world.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/couple-of-things-to-do-in-london-on.html\">Davide<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/d-notice.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/permission-granted.html\">D-Notice<\/a>, but my protest would have been that &#8220;Political protests are a waste of time and effort&#8221;. That and I had work to do this evening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I eagerly await post-match analysis from all involved &#8211; though Justin already has a few pics up <a href=\"http:\/\/moblog.co.uk\/blogs.php?show=3862\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> A couple of screengrabs &#8211; first of our Rachel with her &#8220;7\/7 inquiry now&#8221; sign, second of our Justin with his &#8220;Legalise everything&#8221; one. Both times they&#8217;re on the left (fnarr fnarr) of my old friend, BBC London&#8217;s Gareth Furby (the chap who interviewed me during that <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/europhobias-st-john-ambulance-thank.html\">St John Ambulance piss-up<\/a> I set up last year):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/_Secure\/0RwARA1cV3hASTI1gzARhxnygHi*DyZeoOlRVEbQBFHdUbSU!XAcqbuB*bKx7!1ZeuDNUuUyIzhy95toXIICVBPwhua*uWs43kKourhUe52k\/Rachel.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/_Secure\/0SgDZAmkWH19wjopTUNvyIEibjsmIEsWAZEHJOP!HDJJw44qdQp43VBVX!WvMi5k3Sfj84*ILgQOl97iXV0tKoiEUuxe56w2KgMyzxthQ1XCTiKKhnWKgjQ\/Chickyog0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What japes, eh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2:<\/strong> Piccies via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chickyog.net\/2006\/09\/01\/mass-lone-protest-pictorial\/\">Justin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nether-world.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/that-mass-lone-demonstration.html\">Davide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds like it was fun. 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