please empty your brain below
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I would respectfully suggest that the genocide in plain sight being visited on the people of Gaza deserves slightly more than an anodyne "ongoing situation in the Middle East".
Frank F | 12.11.23 - 7:54 a.m. | #
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Presumably members of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards shuffled along.
Trevor S | 12.11.23 - 8:13 a.m. | #
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I'm not sure that the Spielmannszug will be putting much of a Bavarian blast into anything, given that Marienloh is in North Rhine-Westphalia, a separate federal state to Bavaria.
Jamesthegill | 12.11.23 - 8:19 a.m. | #
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Disappointing no comment on the gross anti-Semitism displayed by many marchers 🙈🙉
Ed S | 12.11.23 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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Yes, it is somewhere I would feel afraid to be.
Jews Don’t Count | 12.11.23 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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Bingo.
In the first 4 comments we have had the two with conflicting political opinion, the ‘amusing’ comment picking up on something in the post and post with the factual correction. A true diamond geezer full house. Unless I have missed any?
Messiah | 12.11.23 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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A tit-for-tat conflict for which there's no solution. Anyone who thinks HAMAS is a lovely little victim deserving our help is ignoring the connection with ISIS and all that implies. For all its faults, Israel is a democracy where opposition is alive and well. HAMAS-land is a one-party religion-dominated police state.
Alex McKenna | 12.11.23 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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The new American born Lord Mayor seems to be enjoying his new post, if his appearance on television was anything to go by
John | 12.11.23 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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A nice write-up of two things that happened in the city/City yesterday. Thank you.
Gunnersaurus | 12.11.23 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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Some pretty mean spirited comments on here today.
Johnny Topaz | 12.11.23 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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Interesting account of two very contrasting events, except that our government tried to ban one of them. I think that was one reason why the turnout for the march was so great. It certainly encouraged us to turn out and shuffle along peacefully with the rest of the crowd.
ActonMan | 12.11.23 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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So much going on yesterday coinciding with so many line closures!
I can only imagine the travel nightmare! Well done to everyone who made the effort to go somewhere - I didn't.
Cornish Cockney | 12.11.23 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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I live on a street a block between where the EDL came marching down in a bid to intercept the pro-Palestinian march, and a block down where the aforementioned Palestinian Solidarity march was peacefully proceeding. I can definitely gauge that if I were scared of one it was easily the former. I shared a tube carriage and was penned in in crowd control prior to entering the station with the pro-Palestinian crowd and needless to say I was happier to be among them (families with pushchairs, people of all ages, etc...) than the EDL.
matthieu1221 | 12.11.23 - 12:08 p.m. | #
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I wish the telly would give us more information about the practicalities. How do all these people get there, how are organized to form up, where do they go afterwards, and where are the toilets ?
kev | 12.11.23 - 3:03 p.m. | #
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Of course the situation is complex and not amenable solutions. I nonetheless find the mentality baffling that suggests that a modern state can behave as brutally as it sees fit on the grounds of being allegedly "democratic". Part of being democratic is that a state is held to higher standards of humanity than an avowedly terrorist organisation, rather than being at liberty to behave a hundred times worse.
cau1khead | 12.11.23 - 3:08 p.m. | #
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Notice from the news it wasn't the Palestinian march that entailed running battles with the police. Interesting that the Home Secretary is not a supporter of law and order if he followers are anythjng to go by!
Tones | 12.11.23 - 3:13 p.m. | #
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Perhaps for the benefit of future readers, and especially in view of the controversy over the timing of the Palestine march, you should make it clear that both events took place on 11 November, not on the date of your post.
Ian Symonds | 12.11.23 - 6:30 p.m. | #
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Given that this was posted at 7am I would think it's obvious that neither event happened today.
Mike | 12.11.23 - 9:55 p.m. | #
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kev - I can't speak for the Lord Mayor's Show, or indeed for the EDL, but in answer to your questions re the pro-Palestine march:
1. Coaches put on by various organisations (mosques, local Stop the War/PSC etc) from outside London, or all the usual ways of getting to central London on a weekend.
2. March organisers have stewards pointing people in the right direction, but really you just follow everyone else.
3. Coaches will have designated pick-up point, otherwise with a big march like this, it's a game of 'guess which tube station hasn't been shut because of overcrowding yet'.
4. That's the $1000 question! Winter Wonderland was useful on Saturday in that regard. Otherwise you're relying on friendly cafes/pubs on route, or just wait until you get home.
Elaine | 13.11.23 - 2:24 p.m. | #
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"even if I had no intention of joining in" - I'm a longtime reader, but quite shocked by this assertion. With a child killed every ten minutes in Gaza, why in heaven's name wouldn't you join the march?
Colin | 19.11.23 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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