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August Riots

Riot Killer Sentenced To Eight Years For Manslaughter

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.04.2012 | UK
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Darrell Desuze has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the manslaughter of pensioner Richard Mannington Bowes, at Inner London Crown Court. ...

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Met Officer To Be Charged With Racial Abuse During London Riots

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.04.2012 | UK
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Scotland Yard Pc Alex MacFarlane is to be charged with a racially aggravated public order offence after the alleged abuse of a suspect during the Lond...

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London Riots: Teen Who Killed Pensioner To Be Sentenced

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.04.2012 | UK
Read More: Metropolitan Police, Life in Prison, Violence, Pensioner, UK Courts, August Riots, Riots, Richard Mannington Bowes, UK News, UK Crime, Brain Damage, Kent, Darrell Desuze, News, UK News

A teenage thug who killed pensioner Richard Mannington Bowes during the summer riots will be sentenced alongside his mother on Tuesday Darrell Desu...

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Police Chief: Water Cannons 'Not The Answer'

PA | Posted 24.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Police Tactics, Bernard Hogan-Howe, Metropolitan Police, August Riots, Police, UK Riots, Water Cannons, London Riots, UK News

The head of the Metropolitan Police has reacted cautiously to the prospect of acquiring water cannon to deal with any future outbreaks of rioting. ...

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UK Riots: Afterthoughts

Benjamin Montero | Posted 25.10.2011 | UK Politics
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Benjamin Montero

What is needed is a young person's party of the United Kingdom, not a party that reflects the wishes of young working people, but that is theirs.

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Systems in Crisis - We Need a New Social Contract

Alastair Roderick | Posted 16.10.2011 | UK Politics
Read More: E.F. Schumacher, John Locke, August Riots, Systems, Social Contract, Sustainability, Thomas Hobbes, UK Politics News
Alastair Roderick

Much of the analysis of the British riots is premised on trying to understand how a system of incentives and disincentives could break down so quickly. It seems just as logical to ask the opposite: why did we ever assume the equilibrium being promoted was one of peace, order and rationality?

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