Squares and Circles
Now anyone trying to link the two is either bonkers - or has their own pre-determined and off-the-wall political agenda.
Because they are nothing like each other.
In Tahrir Square the protesters are campaigning for a new kind of society - based on a proper representative democracy, the rule of law - and freedom of speech.
So to suggest that the protesters in St Paul's - or elsewhere - are fighting for the same things is simply untrue.
Elections were held for both the Scottish and Westminster Parliaments in 2011 and 2010 - the outcome was clear and decided by the votes of the Scottish and British people.
In Scotland we have an elected SNP government - with a democratic mandate on a wide range of issues - in London we have a coalition government comprised of the 1st placed and 3rd placed parties.
Inevitably the losers are sore - but the losers are always sore.
I don't recall the Labour governments which were in power for 13 consecutive years - between 1997 and 2010 - on a minority of the popular vote remember - wringing their hands and complaining that they didn't have a mandate to run the country.
No - of course they didn't - because that would have been hypocritial and ridiculous.
Nor do I remember the Labour/Lid Dem coalition which governed Scotland between 1999 and 2007 - coming out and condemning coaltion government as some kind of insult to democracy.
In fact - quite the opposite, if I remember correctly - with all their talk about partnership working and facing up to the fact that no single party had won overall control - in the Scottish Parliament during that period.
Now opposition parties and protesters are entitled to their points of view - and sometimes I agree with them - that the government of the day is going too far - or exceeding their mandate.
But that is a different thing entirely from challenging their democratic mandate - and their right to govern the country.
The opposition parties in the Scottish Parliament accuse the SNP government of bullldozing through its planned legislation on sectarian behaviour - yet propose no amendments to the bill which are positive and constructive.
So they oppose for the sake of opposing - using bogus arguments that are the same thing - politically speaking - as trying to square a circle.
Which brings me back to the protesters in Tahrir Square - whose basic aims and ambitions I support - but who do they now represent in a country of 80 million people?
Are they calling for the planned elections to be called off or postponed - and if so for how long and to what end?
The problem with protests and noisy demonstrations - is that sooner or later they have to be channeled into something positive - an articulate voice that other people can decide to support or not - as the case may be.
And that's why the protesters at St Paul's Cathedral - for example - don't speak for me.
