A vindication for the student protest movement and an embarrassment for the Metropolitan police, which should never have made this charge in the first place. Would Alfie have been charged if he had not been hit? Surely it has never been clearer: no.
Bravo to Alfie and Zak for their fortitude, and solidarity with all their supporters.
This site will go quiet now, as the Middlesex Philosophy department is no more. Thank you to everyone for their support during the critical times of 2010-11. Some of the execs responsible for the closure of the department have moved on, the Trent Park campus pictured on this website no longer exists, and the university has a new badge, a coat of arms with a crown and three swords. Here we are, in an absurd reality where it costs £9000 a year to go to university. The student protests of 2010-11 will be remembered as a blast of collective common sense before lunacy prevailed.
