Back from the trenches

Hi all,

Just a quick note that after a self-enforced 2-day sabbatical from all things Internet/political, I'm feeling refreshed and ready to dive back into the fray.

While I catch up with emails and your very interesting comments - and there are a LOT - here's some reading material.

First off, you might want to check out Colin Palmer's excellent account of his experiences during the marches last week. It's worthwhile to note the problems we had once the march actually started - in the chaos we had some issues A) staying together as a visible presence and B) not getting inundated with SWP and British Communist Party folks. Speaking for myself I was grimacing quite a bit as every other photo I took of one of our signs seemed to have one of those ubiquitous AK47-and-sickle flags in the background - who were those people and why were there so many of them?

There are heaps of mentions of our banner in the press, although not as many mentions of our group's name as I would have liked. Our banner-designer extraordinaire Nick even got pride of place in Ken Loach's march diary in The Independent on Sunday.

Comments

[Colin Gregory Palmer]

Hey,

Thanks for mentioning me on the page. Glad you liked my story. Click my name in this post for the perm link.

[Luke]

Whoops - added in the link now.