This was the biggest one yet – estimates of 800,000, and certainly the largest UK protest since the anti-Iraq war one twenty years ago.

I received a lot of messages from friends telling me to “stay safe” and “be careful”, which makes me worry that people are increasingly afraid to assert their rights.

Certainly the far right were emboldened by the words of the Home Secretary, but they didn’t worry me. They did what they usually do: got pissed and fought amongst themselves.

A couple of idiots came to try and disrupt the march, but they are cowards and don’t like being outnumbered. There was one Nazi hiding behind a police van filming us all – I hope he enjoys the footage of me pointing and laughing at him.

The government and media attempts to equate anyone protesting for a ceasefire as terrorists is part of a wider Western context.

There is new McCarthyism in both Germany and the United States. Our own anti-protest laws are increasingly draconian, and the rhetoric from our politicians increasingly dangerous.

We march because our political consensus supports genocide, and we march because there is little else we can do.

The situation in Gaza is unimaginable, but I hope the footage of our shared humanity stretching for miles across London makes its way across the world, and brings at least a few shreds of hope.