This post is dedicated to the paranoid Daily Mail-ites who think Edinburgh is being besieged by crazed, violent fascists (well, I guess there *is* an argument for describing some of the English police that way, but this is rarely the angle taken…). Take it away, Jim:

"Indeed when the news filtered through yesterday that "The Anarchist Ring-Leaders" had been arrested, it was met with a great deal of mirth at the Stirling Rural Convergence Centre (RCC).

"For anyone interested, the "Ring-Leaders" were all released without charge within a couple of hours of their arrests (news which strangely never made it to the mainstream media). It turns out the Ring-Leaders were a van-load of medics (shock! horror! even some doctors and nurses are self-styled, so-called "anarchists") on their way to the protests. They were carrying maps of the area and had made a number of ‘X’ marks on the maps in the locations that they felt would be the best places for medical stations."

Sheer evil.

Oh, and just to make things even better, the coppers today decided to prevent medical staff from accessing the protesters’ campsite. Better dead than anarchist, right?