I’m heading up to London in a couple of days to visit the revolution romancers outside St Pauls – after an NUT demo (followed by some beers) – these protests are pretty inspiring – in no way can I be cynical about them –  I’m especially interested in the use of the Guy Fawkes masks by those who claim to be part of anonymous (and those who are just tagging along and pretending – ‘cos it is pretty cool after all) – what’s interesting is that the orings of the mask lie in a film called V for Vendetta –

It’s set in a dystopian future where the fictional prime-minister resides over a police state and freedom of speach has been quashed – the movie may be a shadow of Orwell’s 1984 – and the parallells between the dystopian future it depicts and where our current condition are fairly obvious in this speach given by V… (at least I think that’s the main characters name!)

V remains anonymous all the way through the movie – eventually inspiring a revolution on the 5th November. I just wonder what the chances are of this playful spirit actually changing anything….?