Student protests: interactive map. 15 year old Tells Establishment to Stick-it. November10th2010 Student protests and the storming of Tory HQ - a story in social media. Scibd Fight Back 6.0MB. Why British Students Are Rioting over University Tuition. The news came, and the fires followed.
On Dec. 9, sometime after 5 p.m., Britain's Parliament passed a bill to triple university tuition fees to $15,000. Within minutes, peaceful student demonstrations descended into chaos, and Parliament Square — home to Big Ben and Westminster Abbey — transformed into ground zero. Protesters broke through metal barricades and used them to smash windows at the Supreme Court. They urinated on a statue of Winston Churchill.