In New York tomorrow the UN security council will hold a debate on the Middle East, brought forward after Libya, a current council member, said the Goldstone report should be discussed.
However well they are policed, major protests reinforce the impression of indifferent elites, repression of debate, overreaction to dissent, injustice and unaccountable power.
WITH the economy stalling and unemployment rising, it now seems surreal that Britain spent the spring debating something as arcane as the alternative vote (AV).
Disappointingly to some, his presentation, titled "to boldly go: My life in physics", made no mention of popular topics such as time travel or aliens that he has weighed in on in the past.