Am about to return to London, several weeks now from the August unrest/riots and anxious to see the dialogue from within as it has tracked with time.
Those were extraordinarily complex days, a confusion of social protest, anger over Mark Duggan's death, frenetic youth enthusiasm for wild times, organised crimes, arson making homeless of workers, outright murder on the streets of Birmingham.
All fed afterwards by ruling class determination to punish everyone involved and to assume that presence of youth meant parent neglect/guilt. And to evict families, so creating more homelessness. Will this have shifted? I somehow doubt it. Resources for analysis? Ah. Depleted by BBC cuts and bruised kneejerk reporting from Sky: looking forward as always to a return to Paul Lewis/ Guardian. And reinforced by openDemocracy.
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