Who should pay for the policing of demonstrations?
That question arose in Edinburgh yesterday after a day of mass action by climate change protesters led to 12 arrests. For a time, traffic on two major routes into the city was blocked after what turned out to be vegetable oil was poured on to the carriageway.
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