Listening groups set up during London protest marches.

@peterlee I gather only about 43 arrests, which says much for the general behaviour of the crowds.

I regard the marchers, on both sides, as extraordinarly naive and self-important to imagine their silly day out would even be noticed, let alone make a blind bit of difference, to the governments of Iran, Israel and the USA, nor to Hezbollah and Hamas, but at least they were generally well-behaved!

There were more than a dozen arrests among the FA Cup Final crowd.

At least I am glad I live nowhere near London. Friends living in Wembley tell me any major event at the stadium brings the area practically to a standstill for the locals; worsened, they say, by the venue's foreign owners having sold its car-parks to property-speculators. There are far more Wembley Stadium events than demonstrations.

@ArishMell where I live we have ‘bikers’, with diminishing numbers now. They descend every Bank Holiday. Never any trouble. They ride down, stand at the seafront, then return.

@peterlee We see similar in Dorset. I don't how popular it still is but Poole was a regular Tuesday evening bikers' venue.

@SunshineGirl Probably. How do you protest about the plight of the people of Gaza Strip or the West Bank? Denying their problems is not the answer.

@peterlee I don't think they are being denied, at least not in Britian where we are blessed with journalists able to reveal what is happening there, but protests on their behalf in London or anywhere else are simply ignored by the men responsible for their plight.