Emeutes dans la banlieue de Londres après une manifestation. The UK riots: the psychology of looting | Zoe Williams. The first day after London started burning, I spoke to Claire Fox, radical leftwinger and resident of Wood Green. On Sunday morning, apparently, people had been not just looting H&M, but trying things on first. By Monday night, Debenhams in Clapham Junction was empty, and in a cheeky touch, the streets were thronging with people carrying Debenhams bags. Four hours before, I had still thought this was just a north London thing. Fox said the riots seemed nihilistic, they didn't seem to be politically motivated, nor did they have any sense of community or social solidarity. This was inarguable. As one brave woman in Hackney put it: "We're not all gathering together for a cause, we're running down Foot Locker.
" 'I remember the buzz of mob mayhem from 1981' The unifying factor that fuels and drives such unrest is excitement, fun, teenage kicks, writes Kevin Sampson Forensic psychologist Kay Nooney deals impatiently with the idea of cuts, specifically tuition fees, as an engine of lawlessness. Les «riot songs» ou la contestation en chansons. England riots: Clegg and May speeches and reaction - live | UK news. 8.38am: Yesterday David Cameron and Ed Miliband delivered lengthy speeches about the riots and their causes. Today we're going to hear from Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, and Theresa May, the home secretary.
I'll be blogging both events live, as well as covering any reaction. Clegg is up first, at 9am. As Polly Curtis reports in the Guardian today, he will announce plans for a "riot payback scheme". He is giving a press conference, rather than a full speech, but the Cabinet Office have already released some of his comments in advance. Crime and lawlessness deprive ordinary, decent people of their freedom. Violence and disorder are an attack on liberty, on the freedom of individuals to live and work in peace in their own communities. And then May is speaking at 10am. 8.48am: Yesterday, in my blog about the Cameron and Miliband speeches, I said that Nick Clegg had failed, so far, to say anything particularly distinctive on the riots. Mostly it was very sensible. That's it. Rioters strike in Edinburgh 10th August 2011.