This is at Parliament Hill in Hampstead Heath in the evening of one of the first full sunny days since last summer.
But no doubt like most people, we've been spending a lot of time in front of the telly, watching in disbelief. Unbelievably, the BBC seems to be even more partisan than Uncle Rupert's Sky News. Unbelievable because in print, Rupert and all his editors seem very pro the US agenda, and of course The Sun in the UK is screaming its usual right wing propaganda.
Lucky that the web makes it easier to find some alternative voices like the fantastic disinfopedia.org, indymedia, and even Aljazeerah.
We went to another peace rally yesterday in Hyde Park.
There were 100,000 or more people protesting against England's involvement in an illegal, unjust, dishonest war. Strangely, it didn't get very much mainstream media attention. Since open hostilities began, it has become taboo in the UK to criticise the war effort. This is because we are all meant to be supporting the brave men and women risking their lives on the battlefields. One of the speakers made a very good point - she said she supports the British troops so much that she wants to see them removed from danger of being killed and danger of being convicted of war crimes by bringing them immediately back home.
English rallys always seem to finish with popstars making various ill informed and self aggrandising statements. Last time it was Miss Dynamite a London R&B diva singing her hit song whose chorus goes 'I'm Miss Dynamite-tee-ee' ... no shit Sherlock. This time it was some bloke from Travis singing some thin ballad about 'war being like really, umm, bad, and all that kind of stuff'. Very lame after hearing some powerful speakers on the stage. I think they do it deliberately just to get people to go home after these kinds of events.
