This essay was written as an entry for a competition run by The Guardian, asking for 3000 words on a personal experience of protest. I rather ignored the brief, which called for reportage on a recent involvement. It goes without saying that I didn't win...
I wrote about my experience over a lifetime, really as supporting material for an argument, which is that protest over issues is all but futile - that at best it moves the goalposts (I initially miss-spelled that as 'gaolposts', and it was appropriate, as single issue protest can be seen as a call for no more than 'Bigger Cages, Longer Chains!'). The argument is that protest which is simply a rejection, which refuses to get involved in negotiations, in detail, in compromise, is more challenging to the status quo, harder to answer, more subversive - and more satisfying.
Anyway, rather than write it all again, here it is:
July 09, 2013
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