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Sunday, August 14, 2011

My unique take on the London riots

The London riots may not have been the biggest outbreak of disobedience and larceny in the capital's history - as a quick flick through Peter Akroyd's London: The Biography demonstrates - but they are already the most commented on.

As someone who from time to time "gives out" about issues of the day who has been unavoidably detained in a hammock in Brittany while it's all been going on, I feel I should make it clear that, other than sending my sympathies to anyone who's been directly affected, I have nothing to say.

I have no prescriptions to offer, no advice to give the government or the police and no bright ideas for instantly improving people's behaviour. I realise this may come as a disappointment to some of my regular readers but there it is.
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3 comments:

  1. MikeP7:52 am

    Thank you.

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  2. John Medd9:16 am

    When there's nothing you can say, say nothing. Your brevity is to be applauded.

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  3. joko812:32 pm

    'As someone who from time to time "gives out" about issues of the day who has been unavoidably detained in a hammock in Brittany while it's all been going on, I feel I should make it clear that, other than sending my sympathies to anyone who's been directly affected, I have nothing to say. '


    I wish some of our politicians, who were equally detained on holiday, would follow your lead. Or at least say something worth listening to on the subject.

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