Here there are some video rushes of today's anti-cuts protests across central London today. There's nothing particularly thrilling in the fooage, although there were some nice moments: fireworks explosions, blocking streets throughout central London, and especially the way in which demonstrators repeatedly shut down Oxford Street, the main shopping street in the capital.  

The Metropolitan Police may be regretting their over-use of so-called "kettles" (mass detention without charge on the streets) which they've used in the past, because they've bred a newer, faster model of London demonstrator. The kids in the autonomous blocs are so pissed off about being detained in one place for hours at a time that they've adopted a very fast-paced style of demonstrating, and they're splitting up and re-joining each other based on mobile phone and internet communications.  Basically, they're very hard to keep up with, repeatedly changing directions and leaving cop riot vans way behind.  Some of the fat bastard cops assigned to tail the demonstrators were visibly appalled at the speed with which the kids were rolling through Holborn.