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Rovark 
"Luck-pushing, rule-bending, chance-taking reviewer"
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 Posted - 08/12/2011 : 18:37:32
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I'm going to apply for refugee status in Greece for the next couple of weeks
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
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Posted - 08/13/2011 : 01:14:37
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| As I'm currently working in Oxford I really couldn't have been safer... the underclass here all buy balsamic vinegar from M&S... okay, so that's not strictly true, but I was glad to not be in Streatham at the time. I sat up on that very violent third night watching the news till the early hours feeling very sick indeed watching buildings I knew burning to the ground in Clapham, and hearing about trouble all over London, and elsewhere. I'm very glad it's settled down now, but still slightly stunned by the whole thing. A sign of the times perhaps. |
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Chris C 
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 08/13/2011 : 17:44:57
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| Remember this? How Not the Nine O'Clock News proposed dealing with hooligans and yobboes. |
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Koli
"Striving lackadaisically for perfection."
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Posted - 08/19/2011 : 17:26:18
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There's an interesting take in the new Private Eye (a particularly good issue, incidentally). It starts with a quote from the Tottenham & Wood Green Journal:
"Youths armed with glass bottles, bricks and stones turned a high street into a warzone."
But the article was published in March.
The Eye says that riot police took until 5.00am to restore order as around 200 youths aged 14-20 rampaged along Hornsey High Street. Police vehicles were damaged, people were arrested for violent disorder and one bar was stripped of its licence after the incident.
Oddly enough, adds the Eye, this incident wasn't even reported in the Evening Standard (London's daily paper)and it completely failed to spark copycat violence and moral panic across the nation.
As the mag speculates, this was probably because the riot kicked off on 12 March, when rolling TV news and social media were otherwise engaged following the Japanese earthquake and unfolding nuclear crisis.
I suppose one other ingredient that made the recent riots different was an alleged link between gangs in at least two parts of the country, but the response of the media is clearly a critical factor when the chances of spreading are assessed.
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