Why I think this 'story'  in the Evening Standard is fake.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23939865-anarchists-plot-to-wreck-prince-william-and-kate-middletons-wedding-celebration.do

1) Gasmasks may be useful to protesters in Europe but why carry something that is expensive, heavy and incriminating here? The Police have never used teargas (especially during a Royal Wedding) and seldom use pepper spray in public order situations. A simple piece of cloth could cover someones face and be easily disposed of afterwards.

2) An masonry hammer for doing shop windows. Even the most liberal judge would consider a specialist tool an offensive weapon if it was being carried by a protester. Why have something so pricey and risky when a simple screwdriver or brick would do?

3) When have Police horses EVER been attacked with catapults? Again no one would be dumb enough to carry something like that on a demo. But what great way of demonizing the anarchists. I'm just surprised he didn't have sharpened stick for poking kittens....

4) High impact sunglasses. To be worn under or over the gasmask??

5) A head torch. Are they going to be attacking Wills and Kate via the sewer network?

6) A copy of the Guardian? That well known anarchist text. Or was it just placed in the photo to make it look up to date and credible in the eyes of an imaginative copper or Evening Standard reporter?

7) An A4 notepad. Presumably to write down all those sinister plans in case they forget them? And also to ensure a conviction for conspiracy should it be found?

8) The photo. It is clearly an amateur snap. There is no byline. The camera data has been removed from the metadata (how convenient). But the image is tagged "alpha1". And who uses the term "alpha" as a code? The Police.

9) The mobile phone. To compliment that story about people swapping sim cards in Oxford street?

10) Finally our "Anarchist leader" is a working class bricklayer and father of two from South London. Sorry but I can count the working class anarchists that I have met on one hand. None of them would be dumb or naive enough to feed this crap to the ES.

He also reveals that our intrepid black block are planning to scale tall buildings on a day when everyone knows that EVERY building near the wedding will be under lockdown by the anti terror squad. He then goes on to say that the 200 or so that trashed Picadilly will suddenly turn into 10-15,000 of which 10% (very scientific) are the hardcore. Did he get those figures from the black bloc membership secretary??

The Police are well known for planting bullshit stories in compliant newspapers around major events. Does anyone remember the splash in the Evening Standard in the run up to Mayday 2001 when the anarchists were planning to attack the Police with "Samurai swords"? Or how Jean Charles deMenezes was wearing a bulky jacket and vaulted over the barriers to run away from (erm...) plainclothes cops?

The state is clearly planning on breaking all sorts of its own laws around the wedding (Remember the MAM protesters illegally detained miles from the Jubilee?). This is just another shallow attempt at ratcheting up the tension in the run up to the wedding to give the plods a licence to do what they like. Perhaps most disturbing of all is how crap they are at this. The average ES reader may have been born yesterday. But the average activist could see through this charade blindfolded.