According to the BBC there were 10,000 there and I can well believe it. It was certainly the biggest Tolpuddle festival I’ve attended. The best speaker was without a doubt Tony Benn, as inspiring and encouraging as ever, (though he struck a pessimistic note about the prospects of peace): "don’t ask why the poor are…

Students put university on eBay: students at Exeter University put the institution up for sale on eBay as part of their protest against proposed cuts.(Via BBC News | Technology | UK Edition.)I thought one of the Welsh universities, possibly Swansea, did this last year. Still funny, though.

As promised, a more considered account. Weather: OK, rain on Sunday morning, stopped me running, though ~I ran and got lost in the woods above Athelhampton on the Saturday Numbers: lots of people there (we didn’t go last year, for reasons I can’t quite recall, so I’m comparing with 2002 not 2003) Politics: well, Tolpuddle…

Just back from Tolpuddle. Some photos are up, and a longer account of the event will follow when I have time