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April 05, 2007

The joys of serious organised crime

Just been trying to get on with my PhD work at the same time as laughing (harder than you'd think - my Dragon software doesn't know what to make of laughter). I've been listening to a Mark Thomas show - the funniest thing I've heard in a long time....

The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 has, among other things, required protests in the area around the UK parliament to get police permission - and effectively imposed limitations on them. Mark Thomas has spent months holding various protests, playing with the regulations, and very effectively taking the piss. Some interesting stuff here about critical approaches to geography - how administrative boundaries, attempts at controlling and surveilling space, etc. can be subverted - but, to be honest, the main attraction of this show is just that it's very, very funny.

Now, how do I go about holding my Defend Surrealism protest...?

Posted by jon_mendel at April 5, 2007 01:49 PM

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