Today's national newspaper front pages have found a variety of ways to headline the riots across London. Without exception, all feature images of burning buildings.
- The Daily Telegraph's "Rule of the mob" was echoed by The Independent's "Mob rule" and The Times's "Mobs rule as police surrender the streets."
- The Sun went for a single word "Anarchy" while the Daily Mail preferred "The anarchy spreads" and Metro was rather similar with "Riots: the madness spreads." The Daily Mirror chose "Yob rule."
- All were bettered by the Daily Star's excellent "Anarchy in the UK". That deserved a headline-of-the-day award.
- The Daily Express went for a more personalised line: "Flaming morons". And The Guardian was altogether more pedestrian, but less slanted than its rivals, with "The battle for London".
- Elsewhere, the Belfast Telegraph - a paper that has covered many a riot down the years - ran a page one with the headline "London blitzed."
- The Yorkshire Post devoted most of its front page to the riots, "PM flies home to 'war zone'", while The Scotsman - which was probably preparing to carry a picture of the current Edinburgh festival - published a full-page image of a riot scene with the headline "London under siege as mobs roam streets."
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