Web petitions build support, but actions such as the Yarl’s Wood demonstration are viscerally energising
If, like me, you were taken on protests as a child, you may share a vague sense that all those marches and demonstrations, pickets and rallies are a bit past their heyday. I still own a badge saying Aldermaston Easter 1967 that must have been pinned on my top when I was less than three months old. It’s looking pretty rusty now.
Related: Hundreds protest to demand closure of Yarl’s Wood immigration centre
This is the colour, the heft, the pulse, that our online lives lack.
