The war against London's "anti-homeless" spikes escalated today from sign-waving to radical criminal action. In the small hours of the morning, some activists dressed as builders poured concrete over the metal spikes outside a Tesco Metro on Regent Street, before vowing to strike again....

Some have said that the spikes are a good thing because rough sleeping is dangerous and needs to be discouraged. The problem there is that sleeping on the street generally isn't something people choose to do, so maybe the best way of discouraging it is by asking the government to stop gearing policy towards housing for the rich, rather than making an already uncomfortable situation even worse....

I pointed out that what they were doing to the spikes was illegal vandalism. “We don’t really care, to be honest. If any others pop up, anywhere in London, we’re going to do the same thing to them,” was the response....

With that, they walked off with their buckets in tow.