Drawn from a blog of the same name (minus the asterisk), the book offers a catalogue of twenty-first-century anxieties expressed in the form of freehand illustrations, diagrams, and slogans the protest affiches of a new, self-conscious generation.

NEWYORKER: Semi-Charmed Life

But marching for a cause, whether it be opposition to the Iraq war or the ban on hunting, is about protest, emotion and the pleasures of self-righteous solidarity.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

IR I must protest against your portrait of France as an illiberal, self-centred nation.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Hundreds of farms have been seized by self-styled war veterans since February in protest at the fact that - 20 years after independence - the vast majority of the productive land in the country is still owned by a small number of white ranchers.

BBC: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe

Ruth Underwood, whose father Austin took part in the protest in 1961, said people living in Imber had been self-sufficient.

BBC: Deserted village of Imber remembered

Until now, Polyzonis's self-immolation was the most vivid image of a singular public act of protest in a country that's been shaken by anti-austerity violence.

CNN: Austerity drives up suicide rate in debt-ridden Greece