Last week, there was a flurry of media attention about last year's Climate Camp action targeting Kingsnorth power station and the way it was handled by the boys in blue. The Liberal Democrats are up in arms about what they insist was a repressive, disproportionate and arguably unlawful level of policing. Plus the damage to the public purse: 1,500 officers from 26 police forces were deployed at a cost of nearly £6 million.
One of the features of the police response was what appeared to be amateurish attempts at psychological warfare in the form of sleep deprivation. At one point a line of police cars sped down the road next to the campsite playing the Ride of the Valkyries. At 6am a loudspeaker would blare out "Hi de Hi", together with duck and dog noises.
On the Monday morning after the main protest, a police van blasted out loud rock music, what sounded like an American police station's automated switchboard message and later departed playing "I fought the law and the law won".
Unbelievable but true.

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