Not a bad piece and the quotes are pertinent. But this line jars a bit:
Trapped in the Westminster kettle, it was ultimately the words of Thomas Hobbes I recalled most clearly:
Really? The full quote ran through your mind in the middle of the kettling of a demo?
Not, well, when I got home I looked up something I sorta remembered and yes, this is what I was vaguely thinking about?
Maybe it was Hobbes’s “Whiche of thee barturds trodde on my footte?”(1637) which came quickest to mind
Tim – ok, I didn’t remember it all word for word precisely (but then, not that far off). Because I *really am* that much of a geek.
Acknowledged that it reads like Private Eye material though…