{"id":91210,"date":"2026-03-29T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=91210"},"modified":"2026-03-29T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:15:07","slug":"half-a-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/29\/half-a-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to see this reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/mar\/28\/london-far-right-march-biggest-ever-multicultural-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the Guardian last night<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Tens of thousands of people have gathered in London to march against the far right in the biggest multicultural demonstration in UK history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Organisers claimed half a million people had travelled to the capital for the Together Alliance march. Police estimated the turnout was closer to 50,000, although they admitted it was difficult to judge the number due to the widespread nature of the crowd. Yes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Beginning in Park Lane, more than 100 charities, campaign groups and trade unions marched to Trafalgar Square via Whitehall in a show of unity against far-right politics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Funding the Future was a supporting organisation for this event at their invitation, but I was not able to attend, having come down from Scotland on Friday to a full agenda after yesterday. I am, however, delighted that this show of support happened. There are decent people in this world who believe that politics for people matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to see this reported in the Guardian last night: Tens of thousands of people have gathered in London to march against the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/29\/half-a-million\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,203,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-fascism","category-politics-for-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91211,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91210\/revisions\/91211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}