Showing posts with label riots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label riots. Show all posts
Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Ted Cantle and Chuka Umunna are wrong - Britain is not getting more segregated

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For many people in Bradford the 7th July 2001 is a date that brings back dreadful memories. Forget about the declining textile industry, ...
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Tuesday, 29 September 2015

Why we're so agitated about 'gentrification' (and how London needs a 'Green Belt' review)

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**** As one of the self-important semi-rioters attacking the Cereal Killer cafe put it: While I understand people’s annoyance at property ...
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Sunday, 16 February 2014

Advertising doesn't cause riots, make people gamble or cause revolution!

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**** She said she was particularly concerned about gambling advertising before the 9pm watershed and went as far as saying that "ex...
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Friday, 19 August 2011

The riotous looters were delightful weren't they!

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**** From a report in Inside Housing : Homeless people in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool were robbed and beaten, accordin...
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Thursday, 18 August 2011

Did you listen to what your mother said?

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There’s that classic comment from Arthur Dent: "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped...
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Friday, 12 August 2011

Untouchable...

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Not surprisingly, many from the left are praising Peter Oborne’s latest grumble about the corruption of Britain’s business, political and...
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A sensible suggestion...

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**** There has been a great deal made of evicting rioters from their council houses and I can see the point. But - unless a wholesale rew...
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Thursday, 11 August 2011

Not a good week for police leadership

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  We all watched numb and speechless as looters rampaged through the high streets of London, Manchester, Birmingham and elsewhere. And we r...
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011

In which I wish the Joseph Rowntree Foundation would take its prejudices elsewhere than Bradford

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Although the Joseph Rowntree Foundation does some good research it is sadly blind to the reality of its ‘poverty-mongering’ in Bradford. Ove...
Tuesday, 9 August 2011

In the end riot is the fault of the the rioter...no-one else

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“The fact that we were all safe as kittens under a cookstove did not, however, assuage in the least the fine despair and the grotesque despe...
Sunday, 12 December 2010

Theresa, can we get a little perspective please?

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**** We had some riots. A few people were injured but probably fewer than are injured on a typical Friday night in Leeds or Manchester. Ther...
Sunday, 11 April 2010

Nick "Crazy" Clegg loses the plot

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I am stocking up the extensive cellars at Cooke Towers with essentials – canned foods, batteries, dried mushrooms, red wine and so on. I in...