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Ten years ago today, he joined millions of other people around the world in marching against the planned invasion of Iraq. This week, Symon Hill was effectively banned from his local branch of Costcutter for trying to buy newspapers. It’s been a strange decade, he writes.

Growing public anger at Starbucks was clear over the weekend as some 40 of their shops across the UK were targeted by protesters against tax-dodging.

Christian campaigners have backed direct action against Atos, a company accused of wrongly declaring thousands of disabled people to be fit for work.

Eight anti-cuts protesters arrested in Fortnum and Mason last year have been found not guilty despite the conviction of other protesters on the same evidence.