Hug a hoody or hurt a hoody?
Some ‘unorthodox’ solutions to the problem of Britain’s hooded youth… I hope I’m not alone, as I’m sure I’m not, in questioning the pointlessness of having hood’s attached to jumpers. It’s clearly a fashion fad, yet they seemed to be gaining even more notoriety following these god-awful riots. Scenes of a young foreign [...]
Gustave Le Bon was a famous theorist on crowd psychology who wrote during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century. Gustave Le Bon (no relation to Simone LeBon) believed that in a crowd one’s individuality is submerged under the mass of the crowd and thus ideas of responsibility are lost and what remains [...]
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With the UK looking at how to control social networks, Chris Mistry takes to Twitter for the first time and recounts his experience… I ‘m new to Twitter. As a relative technophobe it’s been a hard adjustment but a fun one. Keeping up with trends, friends and my idols has been enjoyable, but [...]
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Following the recent riots, Andy Findon says Britain must reform its moral code before it reforms its police… In the ensuing introspection and soul searching that has washed over the political landscape in the wake of rioting across England, many of the solutions put forward have been wide of the mark. None more [...]
Continue reading …West Midlands police have released video footage of rioters firing shots at unarmed officers, and even at a police helicopter. The incidents took place at the height of rioting in the Birmingham area.
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Tariq Jahan discusses gives his view on the riots and discusses his surprising Islamist past… After his son was killed along with two others during the recent Birmingham riots, Tariq Jahan appeared on television screens across the world calling for peace in his community. Here he gives his view on the riots and [...]
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A Daily Mail report linking a rape to the English riots was fundamentally wrong… The newspaper’s front page reported the story as: the most depraved incident to emerge from the riots. It centred around the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl by a 15-year-old boy in Woolwich, an area badly hit by the [...]
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How Bill Bratton cleaned up US cities… In the wake of his recent appointment to advise the UK government, the British press have given Bill Bratton the title of ‘Supercop’. But is he really the zero-tolerance police officer that he’s portrayed as? While he now prefers to be known for community-building, Bratton did [...]
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