London is relatively calm after Monday's night of mob violence, arson and looting - many shops and pubs have closed early and windows have been boarded up. The Metropolitan Police's decision to flood London streets with 16,000 officers - many drafted in from other forces, appears to have worked.
However trouble has flared up in Greater Manchester and the West Midlands, with scores arrested in city centre disturbances. There has also been reports of sporadic violence in other English cities including Liverpool, Leicester and Notthingham, where a police station was firebombed.
Meanwhile the Independent Police Complaints Commission has stated there is no evidence Mark Duggan - whose death set in motion the events leading to the first riots on Saturday - opened fire at police,
Finally Prime Minister David Cameron has recalled MPs from summer recess for a debate on the riots this Thursday.
UK riots: Trouble erupts in English cities
As far as I'm concerned these riots are not about Mark Duggan or about being oppressed. These are just opportunist scumbags involved in criminal acts - nothing more or less.
But if the rumours on the net that EDL (English Defence League) vigilantes are present in Enfield and Eltham are true, then things are going to get grimmer...
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