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“Over 250,000 join cuts protest as police battle anarchist rioters”, headlines The Observer, summing up the groundswell of popular anger against the British government’s austerity drive. Just days after Chancellor Osborne announced another round of cuts to public services, the quarter million turn-out protestors in London’s Hyde Park on Saturday 26 March was "absolutely enormous and showed the anger of ordinary working people", according to trade union sources. However, “the generally good-natured mood was soured by violent and destructive attacks on symbols of wealth including the Ritz, banks and a luxury car dealer, and an occupation of the upmarket food store Fortnum and Mason”.
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