Tag: Riots

This is NOT Just About the Poor | Are Looters Pirates to be Celebrated?

Aug 12, 2011

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KB

in City Life, Current Affairs, Economics, Education, Politics

I’ve been away for a couple of days, so haven’t posted again on the aftermath of the night of looting that gripped various locations in London, and then spread to other cities in the UK. But in the mean time I’ve faced some criticism for my previous post for a) appearing to back away from…
Rebels Without a Cause? What We May (Not) Have Learned from the London Riots

Aug 9, 2011

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by

KB

in City Life, Current Affairs, Economics, Education, Politics

It’s perhaps too soon to work out what the hell really happened in London last night, or why. I stayed up til 2am following the news and the Twitter feeds, and I have to say it was one of the saddest nights I’ve ever spent in the capital. There has already been some debate…