Anger with police sparked the riots
Ben Mitchell writes about how the role of the police in sparking, and then failing to deal with, the England riots is becoming clearer.
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IDS jumped the gun: Gangs had nothing to do with the riots
Three months on, Ben Mitchell goes through what we now know about the reasons for the riots.
Coalition split on riots sentencing
Ed Jacobs discusses new data showing yet another split between the Tories and Lib Dems in government – this time over the proportionality of riot sentencing.
Cameron’s benefit cap rewards family break-up
David Cameron has rooted the causes of the August riots in values and family break-up. So why is he proposing a benefit cap that will encourage parents to split?
Cameron’s Bullingdon hypocrisy laid bare
David Cameron was grilled over his antics while a member of the posh boy Bullingdon Club today, an issue which exposes him and Boris Johnson as hypocrites.
Clegg’s defence of Human Rights Act as welcome as it is timely
Liberals of all hues should welcome wholeheartedly Nick Clegg’s defence of the Human Rights Act, for a host of reasons, writes Dr Prateek Buch.
Local MP well-placed to lobby on police cuts
The Knutsford Guardian carried a story last week about the town’s MP visiting a local police station to thank officers who had travelled to London during the riots…
Starkey’s race theories “would disgrace a first-year undergraduate” say academics
Leading academics have savaged right-wing historian David Starkey’s post-riot comments about race in which he said the problem was “whites have become black”.
China hails Cameron’s look at instant messaging crackdown
Chinese Communists have praised the Prime Minister for investigating whether clampdowns on instant messaging and other social media can be introduced.
New York Times slam Cameron, Liberal Democrats over riots reaction
The New York Times, America’s newspaper of record has attacked David Cameron for his reaction to the riots.