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It's not just North London that is in the news for acts of arson.
Weymouth too.
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- Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
That old thing, the mob (made up of educated and semi-educated) - once called the Fourth Estate, significant part of the politics of 18thC London, now amplified by technologies that create and spread news. Feelings occlude analysis; suggesting a link between contagious urban pillage and the most severe cutbacks in public services since WW2 beside global recession is treated as collusion. Argument erupts in the family and among friends as we compare, share and debate our reactions to the events of the past three days. Of course "it's the economy stupid". Where the riots of 1985 and earlier were race related, this is about class, with ethnicity as a distraction. There will be now be some condign punishments, and more quietly a long enquiry into why so many people who might have expected this to happen, didn't.
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