We gathered at Russell Square. There were two separate protests that day. This was a very big one, perhaps 200,000 people. On the tube going, Ken palled up with a pair of doctors with their daughter & wisely stuck with them all day but was ok. We marched South as far as Aldwych, then right down The Strand to Trafalgar Square & down Whitehall Here, Ken gave up & took the tube home from Embankment. There had been half a dozen brave Jews with flags at Waterloo Bridge, where we chanted, shame on you.
The other demo was in Parliament Square & was a protest against the arrest under the Terrorism Act of people who had been arrested at a previous demo Ken had, to his shame, not attended, where people supporting the unfairly condemned group Palestine Action, which the government (to their shame) condemned as terrorists. On this parallel demo, more people, many quite elderly, were quite absurdly arrested as ‘terrorists’, our government, alas, not missing any opportunity to look mendacious or stupid. Ken, a Labour Party for 60 years & one-time Councillor, was by now considering his options.