Hi BBC, this is the History of Protest. I don’t think you’ve met…

Oh God. The BBC has commissioned a ‘History of Protest’. Lovely idea, you think. A welcome change from the Nazis and Henry-the-bloody-Eighth. The trouble is, though, they’ve gone and got Owen Jones to do it. Now, I’m never a big fan of those piece which basically run, ‘I’m-an-academic-and-I’m-annoyed-that-[insert media outlet]-has-done-a-story-and-they-didn’t-ask-me.’ But there are literally squillions…