It's looking pretty grim here, but there are glimmers of hope. More and more people are waking up to how self-serving the government is, and that both Labour and Conservatives are just two different wings of the Uniparty.

The police used to be respected, operating on the principle of policing with consent. That's pretty much gone, and I've seen two cases recently where police lines at protests have been overrun (so far peacefully - people just pushing through, demonstrating the irrelevance of the police) where previously respect for the uniform alone would have acted as a deterrent.

New political parties are setting the terms of debate, although it is looking increasingly likely that the dictatorial regime currently in power will use the same kind of shenanigans as we've seen in Germany, France, Romania and Moldova to ensure any election is a sham. But people's response to that, so far discreetly, is to point to Nepal.