On Monday night rioters across the capital showed that authority held no sway over them. The Independent’s commentators discuss the riots that have shaken a nation.
In the News
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August 11th, 2011
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August 10th, 2011
The Bishop of Manchester has called for justice to be done after thugs tore through the city centre, vandalising and looting shops.
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August 10th, 2011
The destruction is shocking, the thieving violates us all, and the lack of respect for authority shakes our confidence in our law and order values.
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August 10th, 2011
We urge every person who possibly can to pray that the riots will cease and that peace will engulf our nation. If it is possible we are asking churches to hold prayer meetings that Christians can meet together and seek God about this issue.
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August 10th, 2011
A senior figure in the SNP has criticised one of his party colleagues over his stance on same-sex marriages. Nationalist MSP John Mason has tabled a motion at the Scottish parliament stating that no person or organisation should be forced to be involved or to approve of same-sex marriage.
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August 10th, 2011
An illuminating report on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme (0810) this morning said it all about the British riots. Some teenage thugs who were hooding up to go looting were asked why they were doing it. Maybe they couldn’t afford the trainers and other goods they were setting out to steal? Yeah, we can afford them, came the reply; but since the goods were there to be robbed, it was an opportunity that couldn’t be passed up. What about their parents? Did they know where they were? Yeah, came the reply, but the most they do is shout at me. And as for the police, well the worse that can happen is that I’ll get as ASBO (antisocial behaviour order).
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August 10th, 2011
To understand the cause of these riots, we need to accept that the police ceded control of the streets to the criminals decades ago.
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August 9th, 2011
British aid cash is being given to the families of suicide bombers, it was claimed last night. The Palestinian Authority, which gets £86million of British aid a year, has authorised payments of almost £5million to the families of ‘martyrs’.
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August 9th, 2011
Glad to see others also realising that organised agitation as well as opportunistic anarchy has been fuelling the British riots, which have now spread from London to other cities.
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August 9th, 2011
Islamic sect Boko Haram have been silently killing Christians in the last two months.