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Published in: openDemocracyUKVideo: Tottenham residents give their take on the riotsA new independent documentary tells the story of last month's riots in Tottenham from the point of view of local...
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Published in: Shine A Light'Fuck the police!' Working-class youth and the routine abuse of power
For many, the 'boys in blue' are a brutal force who use their powers to punish and wreak revenge. England's riots...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe'll 'fix Broken Britain' through more emphasis on human rights, not less
After England's riots, the Prime Minister has pledged to replace the Human Rights Act with "our own British bill of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan we rely on the Lib Dems to defend the role of human rights in Britain?
David Cameron pledged in the wake of England's riots to address the country's 'rights not responsibilities' culture....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAs the trial of 9 UK Uncut activists begins, Britain's right to protest is also in the docks
Today the trial of nine UK Uncut activists begins. They had superglued themselves to Topshop last year in protest...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAnatomy of a Networked Riot: rapid violence, rapid response
Social networking has come under fire since England's week of riots and looting. But the same tools that facilitated...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK"The Game is Up": Unrest, Policing and the War on the Underclass
Ten years after 9/11, the 'War on Terror' in Britain is being replaced by a 'War on the Underclass' as exceptional...
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Published in: Shine A LightResisting the Riot Fearmongers: lessons from 1958 and beyond
As right wing commentators channel Enoch Powell, Steven Hirschler counts the human cost of misdiagnosing civil unrest
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Police, Notting Hill Carnival and the Permanent 'State of Exception'Notting Hill Carnival - despite predictions of disorder after London's riots - was hailed as 'peaceful' and a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Time We Live
What might we hope for from life? Watching the London riots from afar John Berger finds a small passport that lets...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWill the riots alter how Britain perceives its Muslim communities?
The riots and their aftermath invoked both shame and pride in England. Many members of the Islamic and other...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKClubs and Street Corners: how London's youth are criminalised for using public space
Before the riots, young people growing up in poverty in London faced the threat of criminalisation. Now, living...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRioting youth? Blame the baby boomers and the state they created
Britain's baby boomers gave little thought to the next generation, while the state has gradually abrogated its...
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Published in: Shine A LightSandwiches, Red Bull and Public Support: police officers talk about England's riotsA fortnight after a peaceful protest against the shooting dead of Mark Duggan sparked four days of rioting across...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe media's wilful ignorance over England's riotsA brave speech from the football editor of The Times attacks journalists' collective failure to get to the truth...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRecalling 1970s London: has life improved since for the young, poor and black?A lecturer at Oxford University remembers her teenagehood as a native Jamaican in Hackney, one of London's poorest...
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Published in: HomeEngland’s two solitudes
A four-night outbreak of riotous disorder in London and other English cities in early August 2011 is a potent...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCarnival in the Capital: how England's riots recall a history stretching back to DionysiusTo understand the riots that swept across English cities, remember the carnival: a temporary lapse in the normal...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRe-discovering values after the English riots
What does it take to remoralize society? How do values actually work as social phenomena? Support services for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy Wales escaped the riots
Why did the riots that swept through urban England last week stop at the Welsh border? And how has the Welsh...
