When Mrs Steve and I heard about the vigil we both railed against it and we thought that the organisers calling it off had shown good judgement. Then the women went ahead anyway - with a determination for it to be peaceful. The groundswell of emotion, frustration and outrage about the way our society fails to take the abuse of women seriously was impossible to ignore, and, despite the clumsy and insensitive actions of Cressida Dick and her police, I believe that the message has gone a long way towards getting across. There's a long tradition of getting out on to the streets, the world over, in spite of bad laws, to make the humanitarian case and the call for justice. That's what those women were doing. Getting all technical about their breaking the rules seems to me to be missing a big point.