Britain has long been a poor venue for protest – Saturday won't change this | Simon Jenkins

This outdated ritual of banners, pushchairs, linked hands and incantations won't turn Trafalgar into Tahrir

Trafalgar Square is not Tahrir Square. London is not Cairo. George Osborne's budget is not the repressive one-party diktat of Hosni Mubarak's Egypt but the product of a democratic parliament. The desire of certain Labour MPs and the organisers of Saturday's anti-cuts rally to identify themselves with "recent protests in the Middle East and north Africa" is worse than silly. It dumbs...