- "Panic on the streets of London" by Penny Red (via @openculture).
- "There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored" by Nina Power (via Lara on Facebook).
- "London riots: the underclass lashes out" by Mary Riddell (via Lara on Facebook).
- "Caring costs – but so do riots" by Camila Batmanghelidjh (can't remember how I came across this).
- "The UK riots and language: 'rioter', 'protester' or 'scum'?" by Jon Henley (via @guardianstyle)
- "The riots are a catastrophe" by Owen Jones (via @HeardinLondon).
- "An open letter to David Cameron's parents" by Nathaniel Tapley (can't remember my source either).
- "An open letter to those who condemn looting", part one and part two, by Evan Calder Williams (via @illyrica).
- "The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom", by Peter Oborne (via @shivmalik1).
- "These riots reveal some unpalatable home truths" by Hari Kunzru.
Labels: London bound
2 Comments:
Thanks!
I'm so annoyed with and tired of people harnessing this event for their own agenda and taking their focus away from two basic aspects fuelling the chaos:
1. A failure to discipline these louts, and
2. Riots as a misnomer, because these dipshits are just opportunistic thieves and looters!
Actually more fundamental issues include poverty, access to education and jobs, the criminalisation of poverty and, as always, the hard questions about how we behave towards each other.
I'm not saying there wasn't opportunism out there, but I think what Cameron et al are doing "in response" isn't addressing the many underlying problems.
Another good link from yesterday: Profits must no longer go to the few at the top by MP Simon Hughes.
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