Popular uprisings in Middle East dictatorships have had a surprising effect closer to home.
The nation's goldfish have begun to make a stand against their limited freedoms and living conditions.
The pets with the notoriously short attention span generally live in spherical bowls or aquaria, often in full view of TV sets. Their exposure to the recent news from the Middle East is thought to have caused the current piscine demands.
Bubbles - known as Lenfin - who lives in the Nemo family lounge, in Wilsden, near Bradford, is a spokesman for the Popular Front For the Liberation of Chinese Carp (and Other Freshwater Fish).
Swimming round his bowl he told us: "Hello! No longer will the goldfish of the UK stand for this form of enslavement. We make the following demands...
"Hello! No longer will the goldfish of the UK stand for this form of enslavement. We make the following demands...
"Hello! No longer will the goldfish of the UK stand for this form of enslavement. We make the following demands...
