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Million Mask March: Anonymous' London Guy Fawkes protest a damp squib
And Vivienne Westwood got refused entry to a pub
Pics Anonymous' #MillionMaskMarch hit London amid a flurry of fireworks on the symbolic date of 5 November, Guy Fawkes night. Despite the symbolism, it was pretty lame.
Your correspondent, fresh from a hard day staring at screens and drinking tea, wandered along to Trafalgar Square to see what the fuss was all about.
There was a fuss, albeit a surprisingly muted one given all of the various Twitter graphics doing the rounds which promised a V for Vendetta-style turnover of the capital, complete with Parliament going up in smoke.
Upon arriving at Trafalgar Square a little after 5pm, the advertised start time, we found a fair-sized crowd which mainly consisted of curious students and the usual aged left-wing bores who always turn up at London events, whether relevant to their stated cause or not.
Art? Anonymous swarm around London's National Gallery
The official response by the police was quite low-key - at least, to begin with.
Lame: Bored coppers watch as 'Anonymous' pose for pictures by Nelson's Column
Most of the crowd seemed to be the usual rent-a-mob of left-wing sympathisers. Your correspondent saw, variously, Palestinian flags, Socialist Worker placards, a Soviet Union flag, a Scottish flag and various other weird and wonderful emblems.
Flags: This lot must be real, they've got a bit of cloth on a stick
All rather odd for a supposedly anarchist hacker collective. In your correspondent's opinion, real anarchists don't call for the replacement of democracies with authoritarian dictatorships.
Signal failure: Two London Underground managers look worried as Anonymous protestors gather in Trafalgar Square, outside Charing Cross Tube station
A variety of uniformed folk stood around the outside of the central gathering, wondering what to do about them. Someone half-heartedly threw a coffee cup at two tourist information officers.
Deary me: What would Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Beatty, Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby say?