I feel I should post about the riots. If only I had something to say. I have no experience with burning or looting or Twittering. (Not yet, anyway.) Or with being especially disadvantaged, save for the pity many Brits feel for Americans in their hearts.
A. A. Gill saw swift opportunism. Sensing a blind spot, a weakness, and exploiting it for quick profit, shorting your own neighborhood. So perhaps there was a lesson learned from the market after all.
Trickle-down disaster capitalism. The great bank heists bailouts, while a redistribution of wealth almost unimaginable orders of magnitude greater than anything on display in Tottenham, weren’t quite so scary looking.
Peter Oborne in the Telegraph had a satisfying dig at Richard Branson, whose train passengers are probably due for a riot at some point, and Suzanne Moore made an eloquent plea in The Guardian to not to shut the kids out: Never woven into the social fabric, how easily they rip it to shreds.
And Timothy Burke? Just sayin’.