Who will remind the Met Police of their duties?

On Saturday, according to the Daily Telegraph, pro-Palestinian protestors ‘brought Oxford Street to a standstill on one of the busiest shopping days of the Christmas period’. The organisers, Sisters Uncut, declared that ‘Christmas is cancelled’ while placards read ‘no shopping while bombs are dropping’ – a reference to Israel’s military response to the 7 October massacre in which Palestinian terrorists murdered 1,200 Jewish men, women and children.

The Telegraph recorded that the marchers had ‘walked slowly’ along Oxford Street and ‘forced fashion retailers Zara and Puma to temporarily lock their doors’. They wrote that the demonstrators ‘made their way from Soho Square towards Oxford Circus, holding up buses and taxis’.

Sky News, meanwhile, reported that the marchers stopped outside Puma, which sponsors the Israeli national football team, and chanted ‘shut it down’. They also gathered outside Zara and accused it of ‘supporting genocide’. Pro-Palestinian campaigners say a Zara fashion photoshoot featuring limbless mannequins, which was shot in September, was mocking casualties from the bombing of Gaza, which began in October.