A friend of mine who lives in Manchester told me this story today:

“I have just left Manchester city centre … A lady with a number of Big Issue Magazines approached me with tears running down her face. She said “I don’t want you to buy one, could you just protect me? I am so frightened.”I really hope these destructive bastards get what they ( Read more... )

A lot of people are talking about how this is just about criminality, and people feeling like they can steal things with nobody stopping them. I’m not going to disagree that that’s a huge part of this whole thing, and I'm not going to claim that this juvenile assholes are political or that they're 'protesting' anything, because they're not. But ( Read more... )