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Neil Davenport
Ignoring the real lessons of the riots
It wasn’t poverty that kicked off the 2011 riots; it was the years of intervention from a therapeutic state.
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| Tuesday 17 July 2012 |
Jennie Bristow
How the nationalisation of parenting stoked the riots
ESSAY: The state’s relentless undermining of parental authority has created a world in which no one knows how to control children or teens.
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| Tuesday 17 July 2012 |
Neil Davenport
Time to Do Something for themselves
A trendy attempt to promote ‘positive images’ of young people after last year’s riots is the last thing they need.
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| Tuesday 10 July 2012 |
Neil Davenport
Why victim culture
is running riot
Last year's English riots weren't down to government cuts but to a vast culture of self-pity and entitlement among the young.
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| Monday 2 April 2012 |
Neil Davenport
You can’t blame the riots on trainer adverts
To discover the real cause of the August riots, the intrusive state could do with looking closer to home.
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| Tuesday 20 March 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Plan B's prole porn for the music press
The lauding of his new single 'Ill Manors' shows even youth culture has been colonised by the chattering classes.
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| Wednesday 21 December 2011 |
Neil Davenport
The rioters weren’t poor automatons
Those who have concluded that the August rioters were simply reacting to deprivation are deluding themselves.
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| Tuesday 6 December 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Getting the rioters to do their dirty work
The Guardian’s study of the August riots is pure advocacy research, designed to harness the power of riotous menace to chattering-class causes.
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| Tuesday 25 October 2011 |
Tim Black
So, it wasn’t the gangs wot dunnit
New Home Office figures confirm that the craven attempt to blame England’s August riots on well-organised, evil gangs was pure fantasy.
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| Tuesday 30 August 2011 |
Jennie Bristow
These riots were not a product of permissiveness
Blaming the looting on the ‘liberal experiment’ of the 1960s is not only wrong - it could also make the real problems in urban communities worse.
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| Tuesday 23 August 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Cameron’s cure will make society sicker
The PM's post-riots promise of more intervention into troubled families is mad – it is precisely such intervention that devastated parental authority.
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| Tuesday 23 August 2011 |
Mick Hume
A hole in more than a windscreen
What an act of petty vandalism on a Salford estate reveals about British society after the recent riots.
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| Tuesday 23 August 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Society falling apart? Blame it on The Gang!
You’d never know it from listening to politicians or perusing the press, but there’s no ‘gang culture’ in Britain.
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| Thursday 18 August 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Riotous youth: hang ’em high or hug ’em hard?
Why spiked is taking neither side in the great national handwringing over whether looters should get jail time or tough love.
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| Tuesday 16 August 2011 |
Josie Appleton
Policing the innocent, ignoring the riotous
ASBOs, CCTV, dispersal zones and a whole host of other petty powers did nothing to prevent the looting.
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| Tuesday 16 August 2011 |
Neil Davenport
Schooled in
self-obsession
A teacher asks whether an education system which over-flatters the young contributed to the riots.
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| Monday 15 August 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Rioting in England: was it just a bad dream?
The elite’s claim that this was just another facet of the ‘culture of greed’ shows how incapable they are of addressing urban implosion.
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| Monday 15 August 2011 |
Mick Hume
Theatrical ‘fightback’ turns to farce
In their post-riot crackdown, the UK authorities looked like scared schoolboys acting tough once the fight is over.
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| Monday 15 August 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
These rioters are not ‘Thatcher’s offspring’
To blame neoliberalism (whatever that is) for the riots is to provide an Idiot’s Guide to Social Decay.
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| Friday 12 August 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Never mind the looters, what about the ‘fascists’?
The moral assaults on the Enfield ‘vigilantes’ confirm that the cultural elite fears the white working classes more than it does riotous youth.
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