BBC reports 750,000 people at march. other half (and the rest of the CND types) were told by police that it was 1.5 million. The old cut it in half thing is true.

Still, even on their figures, 1.25 per cent of the population (or 2.5 per cent as it really is) turning out to protest should surely be a sign of how important this is, particularly when you add in the marches elsewhere in the country, the wusses like me who wanted to go but can't cope with big crowds, the people who were working, the people who are too old or ill to go on the march and all the kids whose parents wouldn't let them go.

How much arrogance does a government need to ignore this much public feeling?

Then again, how much arrogance does the average politician have?