Some highlights from the protest:

- Beside reading out the leaflet and the usual chants ('No borders, no nations, stop deportations'; 'Asylum rights are human rights'...), protesters shout repeatedly: 'Italian government, racist government, Italian government, fascist government', which sounds much nicer in Italian.

- The manager of the next-door building, which's empty and being decorated, objects to hanging banners on his wall. Having been ignored, he crosses the street, takes out a small digital camera (or one of those expensive mobile phones) and takes some pictures of the protesters.

- Police arrive after about an hour and try to end the protest, claiming at first it doesn't have permission from the Westminister Council, and then that it might distress neighbours.

- Two cops are arguing whether it's Section 4, 12, or 14 of the Public Order Act that the protest is breaching. No, Section 2. No, no, 4...

- Another cop arrives and asks a protester to give him a leaflet. When this refuses, the cop applies Section 44 of the Terrorism Act and wants to search him and take his details. Why? Apparently because he's leafleting outside a 'prominent government building'. The situation is de-escalated by another protester and the cop gets his leaflet.

- One protester comments on the cops' outnumbering the protesters: If your protest is small, don't worry, the police will make sure it is visible.