English people may have forgotten that they were once anarchic enough to chop a king’s head off and have turned protesting into a fete for the mentally ill, but in Germany May Day is still a hugely violent festival of fear. Read more »
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Making merry in the month of May
Maybe the April 1st riots got everyone riled up into a perpetual state of anarchy or perhaps it’s just that English people are after any excuse to bunk off work and drink outside as soon as the sun rears its head. Either way the end of last week saw demonstrations on the South Bank over the death of newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson and at Clerkenwell Green about, well, just about everything there is to currently be pissed off about really. We popped down to see what was up.
