What Rogers had described to me – protests, sit-ins, demonstrations, occupations, hummus – I can comprehend all that.
Labour only had a clear lead over the Conservatives among 18- to 34-year-olds, voters in social class DE (the "semi-skilled and unskilled manual occupations, unemployed and lowest grade occupations"), among private and social renters, and black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) voters.
Occupations can be very effective – especially because of the prominent location of the one at UAL.
Early provision of equipment and minor adaptations is crucial when need can quickly become critical and will enable someone to continue with occupations that are vital to quality of life".
This makes UAL one of the latest institutions around the world to be hit by occupations and strikes by staff and students.
Baking also allows you to create something from scratch that you can then sell to the public – not many occupations offer that chance to see something through from start to finish – it brings such a sense of achievement.
Those in middle and working-class occupations were just as likely to be undecided.
Protesters from other housing occupations across the capital joined forces with the squatters.
In contrast to weak resistance in Anglo-American countries, European and Latin American countries have witnessed an escalation of desperate forms of public resistance to austerity measures (riots, occupations, torching of luxury cars and homes of the rich, smashing expensive shops and hijacking food trucks), thus placing governments on notice that there is a limit to their toleration of austerity.
We spoke to students inside the occupations to find out more.
Or caused not to be done, which has become the dominant calculation since the disastrous occupations of Baghdad and – further east – Kabul prompted western leaders to greater caution.
