Held and Charged

The Metropolitan Firearms and Headbangers' Club, bless them, still haven't quite got the hang of this "lying in an age of citizen journalism" business. Twenty-four hours after they denied charging a student demonstration with horses, a video emerged from a student demonstration showing members of the Metropolitan Firearms and Headbangers' Club utilising equine resources in vigorous pacification-oriented activities - activities which the mainstream TV cameras unaccountably failed to record. The Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, responded to a query about the matter in his usual forthright fashion, saying he would look into it but "in doing that I don't want to then create a headline saying I'm acknowledging something's happened". Evidently the Metropolitan Firearms and Headbangers' Club has learned one or two things from the Ian Tomlinson affair after all.

In other news, the Upper (formerly Lower) Miliband said that he was "quite tempted" to exercise his rhetorical skills on the protesters. Evidently he was held back by thoughts of Daily Mail headlines comparing him to Lenin. We can but wonder what might have been.