To kill some time before Moot on Sunday (it seemed daft to drive home and back later!) I popped in for a wander around the Tate Britain and fell by accident upon State Britain, which somehow I had missed hearing about.

The Tate say:

Brian Haw began his protest against the economic sanction in Iraq in June 2001, and has remained opposite the Palace of Westminster ever since. On 23 May 2006, following the passing by Parliament of the ‘Serious Organised Crime and Police Act’ prohibiting unauthorised demonstrations within a one kilometre radius of Parliament Square, the majority of Haw’s protest was removed. Taken literally, the edge of this exclusion zone bisects Tate Britain. Wallinger has marked a line on the floor of the galleries throughout the building, positioning State Britain half inside and half outside the border.

This is fantastic and worth making the effort to see as it stretches the full length of the Duveen galleries. I think it challenges our illusion that we are as feree as we think we are in the UK. If you do go – its fair to say that some of the photos of suffering, especially that of children (the enemy in Iraq? asks a placard) are quite nasty and tear provoking.