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Tens of thousands took part in a demonstration in London against austerity, and thousands more in other cities. Russell Brand was heckled for being too right-wing: ‘Fuck off back to Miliband,’ protestors in Parliament Square cried. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, explaining his thinking on further benefit cuts: ‘There is what I would call a merry-go-round: people working on the minimum wage having that money taxed by the government and then the government giving them that money back — and more — in welfare.’ The government sold more shares in the Lloyds Banking Group, bringing its ownership to less than 17 per cent. The village bank that appeared in an advertisement by NatWest promising to ‘provide banking services forever if we’re the last bank in town’ is closing down.
Karenzi Karake, the head of Rwanda’s intelligence service, was arrested in London on a European warrant issued by a Spanish judge alleging war crimes carried out after the genocide in 1994.
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