Times front page photo. Woman leaps from burning building in London riots. Utter frustration with the spiraling out of control violence, hopelessly stumbling into full scale mayhem. Like modern day dogs of war these feral kids are sly winners.
Police tactics are always failing inner city neighbourhood but the Tory government came up with a life line – a concept of a big society. Well, it just up-ended itself on a lamp post. The Guardian narrative on the 3-day event so-far:
We will likely understand nothing of these events if we ignore the history and the context in which they occur.
