Paul lewis a guardian reporter was great last night he was on foot in london trying to keep pace with where the trouble was a lot of the troublemakers were using there own cars and black cabs to get about the police were pretty much clueless they were just chasing shadows all night.
http://twitter.com/#!/PaulLewis
One of his last tweets this morning was "Something tells me we'll all be back here tomorrow"
I think the powers that be are terrified of this spreading outside of london.