The horror or Broken Britain continues this week.

First we learn that threatening to smash up branches of McDonalds and Starbucks is becoming ever more common, then we learn that miners, bent on revenge are drilling for oil in one family's back garden every day.

Among the hardworking Britons to attack miners, bent on revenge drilling for oil in one family's back garden was Norman Tebbit who today said As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood..