Mick Hartley

It’d be interesting to know quite what Mark Wallinger – Turner Prize winner – thinks he’s trying to say in his CiF piece:

Ask Brian Haw what his protest is about and he will tell you: It is about LOVE.

Eh?

Even the usually vociferous CiF commenters are reduced to silence by the problem of finding a coherent argument they can disagree with. It’s part of CiF’s “Liberty and the state” series. I think he’s trying to suggest that the law curtailing the right to protest within one kilometre of parliament means we’re living in Orwell’s 1984, but, really, I wouldn’t bet on it.