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  • Playing devil's advocate but was the anti austerity march actually that newsworthy?
    Did it change anything? Did it stop austerity?
    Marches and protests happen a lot in London. Even the huge ones generally achieve bugger all. This is basically why we are still allowed to have them.
    Did it have some specific aspect to make it more interesting than all the others? The last one I can remember being talked about was the one at which people threw fire extinguishers off a roof. Nobody talked about the aims of the protest, just the behaviour of some of the protesters and the dodgy police tactics.
    And was the march in question of wider interest? The interested people were most likely on it, and they knew about it already.

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