july 1986 the ceremony for the turning of the sod to initiate construction at canary wharf a grand marquee has been erected amid the west india docks’ derelict warehouses a flagstone is pried up so the governor of the bank of england may attack the sparse soil below with his ritual trowel politicians and businessmen assemble suddenly a flock of sheep stampedes through the proceedings the locals of the isle of dogs dislike this regeneration plan canary wharf jobs are for bankers and lawyers and not for ex-dockers like them animals from a nearby city farm have been borrowed and hidden overnight inside a vacant warehouse after the sheep have caused panic the dockers tip over beehives from the farm thousands of angry bees pursue the governor of the bank of england that’s you by the way this is what happens when thousands of tiny phenomena that you might ignore as individuals are combined within a brief period how will you evade the swarm of high frequency protesters

• become a spider whose webs might ensnare the bees
• compel their obedience by enrolling them all in a pyramid scheme