In the first decade of the 21st Century, many commentators pointed to a lack of appetite for protest in Britain.

In an earlier moving image work, (Curzon Cinemas, 2008), Firrell contrasted the protests of May 1968 in France with the apparent apathy in the UK 40 years later.

includes the text: highlights protest's importance as a guarantor of freedom. Where protest is limited or prohibited, there is no mechanism for alerting society to the gradual erosion of freedoms.

This begs the question: if nothing is contested, is freedom any longer present and actual?

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