An old report and a recent diary alert by animal rights group SPEAK show that numbers at their demo on 22 April this year are subject to an annual inflation rate of at least 50%. The very few press reports immediately after the event suggested that about 1,000 turned up; not 1,200 as SPEAK reported then, or 1,500 as they now have it. Maybe they just can’t add up.

Approximately 1200 animal rights campaigners massed in Oxford city centre as a part of the ongoing and successful campaign against Oxford University’s planned animal torture lab and to mark World Day for Laboratory Animals. April report.

And despite all this, the campaign has continued and grown. In April this year 1,500 protesters marched through the streets of Oxford to oppose the lab and support the campaign. September report.

How long before they say their April 2006 demo attracted 2,000 protesters?