Last Wednesday British students finally rediscovered their political voice. In the protest march on Westminster, the silence which has so far formed the backdrop to the most damaging cuts in a generation was broken. The message was sent to the Con-Dem government that civilized society will not go quietly into the night. The Tory media may have focused their attention on the anarchistic actions of a "minority" of protesters outside Conservative headquarters, but the real revolutionaries are David Cameron and Nick Clegg, supported by their submissive cabinet. In every aspect of government policy, years of progressive consensus is being overturned by vicious small state attitudes and petty mindedness, cloaked in a pseudo-philosophical rhetoric lifted straight from small town America.It was fitting that students should take up the fight, since university fees represent the apogee of the coalition's approach. In raising the fees cap to £9,000 a year to fill the gap left by a wi ...