Stop the Cuts - National Demonstration

Are you sure it got as far as Pentonville Road !?! I could see the smoke from Hampstead Road / Euston Road (waiting for a bus to go to a school reunion - the bus never came), but saw no overspill from there and I was a fair bit closer than Pentonville Road.

Yup, in fact near the junction with Islington High St, this row of shops here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=n1+9hf&sll=51.548544,-0.085723&sspn=0.0083,0.020406&g=n1+4rl&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=London+N1+9HF,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.531856,-0.10757&spn=0.001038,0.002551&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.53186,-0.10743&panoid=YzCd3U88jLwy6SKVc0YMTw&cbp=12,327.83,,0,3.11

They smashed the windows of the cafe and trashed the place but the hairdressers were alright because they'd paid for roll down security shutters (the same people who ran them now ran them back then). I think it was a breakaway group, but they must have been twats to smash up small independent businesses.

I don't doubt the stupidity of the cops in terms of strategy, really.