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a media service provided by New Statesman A digest of all today’s essential comment and opinion TODAY'S SUMMARY Polite protesters will not change Britain 01 December 2010 Student protests will not change Britain, says Bagehot in the Economist. The group of protesters is too diverse, incoherent and genteel to force political change. Wikileaks is endangering the relationships which underpin not just US security but that of the international system, asserts David Brooks in the New York Times. In the Guardian, John Sauven writes that climate campaigners need to challenge high-carbon industry in the boardrooms and demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies. Alice Thomson of the Times believes that small businesses could revive Britain's economy if their regulatory burden was eased. Meanwhile, in the Telegraph, Alan Cochrane praises the BBC's decision to screen the Fifa exposé just before the location of the 2018 World Cup is decided, and asks why winning the competition for England should be a higher priority than cleaning up a seemingly corrupt institution CATEGORIES > UK Politics > International Politics > Economics & Business > Security & Defence > Environment > Science & Technology > Culture, Media & Sport > Health, Family & Society > Education > Human Rights, Law, Justice   If you would rather not receive this email, please unsubscribe from the list. CommentPlus is a Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. ©CommentPlus 2010. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a valued subscriber to New Statesman. Your email address has not been, and will not be, given to third parties.