No Language but a Cry

In Britain today, the protest is what counts. Never mind what you’re protesting against, or why, so long as you accentuate the negative.

I was much gratified to learn recently that a group of Oxford undergraduates have set up in the business of promoting protests. The nature and the method of the protest are matters of indifference. It may be a protest by public meeting, by placard picketing or by pilgrimage, like the Aldermaston March. It may be a protest against the non-recognition of Red China by the UN, against the proposal to drive a road through Christ Church Meadow, against the outfall of sewage on holiday beaches, against the building of nuclear reactors on beauty spots, against capital punishment, against bloody sports, against apartheid, against poverty in India, against prosperity in Britain. Against everything or anything. Against the weather. It is like a bottle party. All are welcome.

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In Britain today, the protest is what counts. Never mind what you’re protesting against, or why, so long as you accentuate the negative.

I was much gratified to learn recently that a group of Oxford undergraduates have set up in the business of promoting protests. The nature and the method of the protest are matters of indifference. It may be a protest by public meeting, by placard picketing or by pilgrimage, like the Aldermaston March. It may be a protest against the non-recognition of Red China by the UN, against the proposal to drive a road through Christ Church Meadow, against the outfall of sewage on holiday beaches, against the building of nuclear reactors on beauty spots, against capital punishment, against bloody sports, against apartheid, against poverty in India, against prosperity in Britain. Against everything or anything. Against the weather. It is like a bottle party. All are welcome.