August 2011

The Guardian reports: Community leaders in Birmingham are working all-out to calm intense anger in the city’s British Asian community over the deaths of three young men who were rammed by a carload of suspected looters. West Midlands police arrested a man near the scene and recovered a vehicle, which forensics experts are examining. They [...]

In February 2007, before becoming Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron said: Sometimes a piece of research is published which goes straight to the heart of the national debate – it holds up a mirror to the whole of society and makes us see ourselves as we really are. That happened this week. On Wednesday, Unicef [...]

“If we’re fighting for a cause, let’s fight for a fucking cause,” shouts a woman in Hackney venting her contempt at kids on the rampage. What do the rioters want? New sneakers? Prize for the wittiest tweet goes to “Sally Can’t Dance” who wrote facetiously: “Turkish and Asian groups have stood up to & chased [...]

How the rioting started: What began as a gathering of around 200 protesters demanding answers over the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police on Thursday, culminated 12 hours later in a full-scale riot that saw brazen looting spread across north-London suburbs. [...] The crowd that gathered outside Tottenham police station at [...]