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RIOTS IN LONDON: InFocus has an excellent photoessay.
VIOLENT THUGGERY: There are some disgusting people out there.
IT'S NOT ABOUT RACE: Kenan Malik explains why. "The riots are not about race. Many on the left have seen them as a
response to racist policing. Many on the right have been pouring out
racist bile against ‘immigrants’. In fact race has played little role in
the violence. This is not to deny that young black men continue to be
the primary target of police stop and search (an issue that has been
shamefully ignored in recent years). Nor is it to deny that there is a
legacy of bitterness about, and resentment of, police tactics in many
inner city communities. But the riots were not in any way defined by
racial divisions, antagonisms or resentments."