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AS THE first day of the G20 summit in London drew to a close on Wednesday April 1st, the havoc predicted by police had largely failed to materialise. This was partly down to numbers, and in part to canny policing. An estimated 35,000 people took part in a march some days earlier, but only 4,000 protesters descended on the city's financial centre on “financial fools day”. That was a far cry from the tens of thousands seen at previous anti-capitalist protests. Police used a tactic of corralling protesters for hours, so violence had little chance to erupt (though a man collapsed and died from what is thought to be natural causes). The only damage wreaked on the institutions of global capitalism was limited to some looting and smashed windows at RBS, a bailed-out bank whose former chief executive is drawing a $1m pension.