When it comes to riots, UK politicians need to acknowledge the real root causes, and address key issues such as failures in community policing.
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Young people need more protection while they’re growing up.
Concerns over examining the Grenfell Tower disaster have been seen before.
Rioters were influenced by a shared anti-police identity – not just mindless violence.
Sensationalist warnings of further riots abound. But while many social inequalities remain, we can’t say whether more widespread violence will follow.
Mark Duggan was shot by the police in 2011, but it took two-and-a-half years to complete an inquest into his death.
Gentrification is an immoral process - here’s why violent protest has a role to play in the fight against it.
Better handling of peaceful protests at the death of Freddie Gray might have prevented the riots.
It has recently been announced that the Mayor of London’s Office on Policing and Crime (MOPAC) has authorised the Metropolitan Police to purchase three water cannon. This decision was made in advance of…
The shooting of Mark Duggan and his involvement – or not – in a north London gang has become increasingly mired in controversy, with myths and half-truths circulating freely alongside uncomfortable realities…
The Mark Duggan inquest jury has concluded, by an 8-2 majority, that the police shooting which sparked riots across England in 2011 was lawful. But their answers to the particular questions, posed by the…
Foundation essay: This article on the indignant generation by Simon Hallsworth, head of the School of Applied Social Sciences at University Campus Suffolk, is part of a series marking the launch of The…
The hacking of BlackBerry’s official blog by the mysterious collective TeaMp0isoN raises serious questions. This black-hat hacking group, founded in 2009, has so far claimed responsibility for more than…
Three days of rioting across London since Saturday have once again raised the question of “why?”. Do riots “just happen” or is there a science, an underlying formula, that can be employed to predict and…
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