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The Protester
Source - Time Magazine
By KURT ANDERSEN
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011


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Shelagh Fogarty - BBC Radio Five - Wednesday 10th August

Shelagh Fogarty: Our reporter spoke to these looters in Manchester.
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 The riots remind us that polygamous societies are naturally violent


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UK riots: David Cameron defends police cuts in Commons sitting

PM says cuts programme will free up frontline police officers as he unveils post-riot security measures in emergency sitting

David Cameron has dismissed Labour calls for a rethink on government plans to impose cuts of 20% on the police as he addressed an emergency sitting of the House ( Read more... )

London (CNN) -- Before they started appearing in court, most people assumed London's rioters and looters were unemployed youths with no hope and no future.

So there was much surprise when details of the accused began to emerge, and they included some from wealthy backgrounds or with good jobs.

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 Britain's liberal intelligentsia has smashed virtually every social value
By MELANIE PHILLIPS

So now the chickens have well and truly come home terrifyingly to roost. The violent anarchy that has taken hold of British cities is the all-too-predictable outcome of a three-decade liberal experiment which tore up virtually every basic social value.

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England riots: The global reaction
By Olivia Lang
Source - BBC NewsThe riots in British cities have unsurprisingly dominated headlines in domestic papers. But there has also been extensive coverage overseas. So what does the rest of the world make of the unrest ( Read more... )

Documentary telling the stories of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. It is one of the worst child poverty rates in the industrialised world, and successive governments continue to struggle to bring it into line. So who are these children, and where are they living? Under-represented, under-nourished and often under the ( Read more... )

Community leaders appeal for calm after three British Asians rammed by carload of suspected looters in Winson Green


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