I don’t see the logic in ramping up the prison sentences in response to the August riots. The mood of the public isn’t a reason to do such things, not to mention the negative human cost on a young foolish individual. But we are all young and foolish at some point. Sensible voices on the… Continue reading On the riots
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On the Riots
Maybe I’m wrong here. If unpolitical means ‘lack of political structure’ and political means ‘political structure’ – in the sense that the student protests were political. Then the combination of greed, criminality, political apathy (perhaps because the left have forgotten about the poor), opportunism, arson, looting and the inevitable suffering of some innocent people –… Continue reading On the Riots