Phone hacking - what's that? A story that I thought would have control over the headlines for weeks to come has been quickly snuffed and set aside as the UK was rudely thrust into the new age of the recession. Rupert Murdoch is probably breathing a massive sigh of relief. A protest over the shooting last Thursday of Mark Duggan by police officers in Tottenham quickly escalated into a violent frenzy on the streets of Tottenham on Sunday. Like wildfire, the riots spread across multiple boroughs of London the following night (Brixton, Croydon, Islington - the list goes on), and before long news was filtering to the watching world that cities including Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Liverpool and Manchester had become victims of mob rule as well.
