Occupy Democracy is not considered newsworthy. It should be | David Graeber

Sleeping outside for an iPhone is OK, but do it in furtherance of democratic expression and youre in trouble

You can tell a lot about the moral quality of a society by what is, and is not, considered news.

From last Tuesday, Parliament Square was wrapped in wire mesh. In one of the more surreal scenes in recent British political history, officers with trained German shepherds stand sentinel each day, at calculated distances across the lawn, surrounded by a giant box of fences, three metres high all to ensure that no citizen enters to illegally practice democracy. Yet few major news outlets feel this is much of a story.