A retrospective on the London Riots and demonisation

[rainsinger]

I’ve half-written and abandoned many paragraphs about the London riots. It is a complex issue and I like to do complexity justice, to try and build bridges between the polarised discourses I’ve been seeing on the media and between people. The middle-place, the meanwhile place is an intensely uncomfortable one (stripped as it is of the snugly

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[land_girl]

Yes to all of this. You have said what I was thinking, and trying to say, only better. Thank you.

[trinity_gal]

So sad. We didn't talk much at home about this - just didn't feel like to spout any more than has been already said everywhere else. All I could do was hold T tight and be amazed at his blessings...(not that it's guaranteed that he won't turn out to be sociopath or something)