London Riots. (The BBC will never replay this. Send it out) London and UK Riots Live « The West Londoner. Feel like buying us a pint or two?
All of us are doing this unpaid – it would be nice to have a meal and a drink. :) Additional reporting: Gaz Corfield (current liveblog), Ricky Compton (liveblog prior to 17:30 and now Twitter @thewestlondoner), Xenia Coudrille (Facebook page), Lee Fleming (research), Chris Green (research), Sean Cameron (ground reporting & research) and Moa Aarenstrup (late night research). Live updates below. Gaz Corfield (GazTheJourno) sur Twitter. Studenten verrassen met liveblog over Engelse rellen: 1 miljoen pageviews. Varsity: 'It's not a North African revolution, but it's getting there' Primark, Tesco, TK Maxx, Marks & Spencers; metal shutters have come down over all of their doors.
Mcdonald’s shattered windows lie hidden behind hastily erected wooden boards. The pavement leading up one side-street is strewn with ashes, the faces of parking meters scorched beyond recognition. Police congregate in threes at the end of every road. The Tab: Clash In Cambridge As Riot Violence Spreads. There were arrests and injuries last night as police confronted a gang of youths heading for a Cambridge shopping centre.
Police tackled a gang of youths who were heading for The Grafton centre last night, as rioting and looting threatened to spread to Cambridge. Cambridgeshire police were first alerted to the group of 30-40 young people at 11.35pm last night. London riots / UK riots: verified areas. Mapping the riots with poverty. Turn autoplay off.
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London riots: Timeline and map of violence. Riots in London and around the country saw widespread looting and buildings set alight.
Dozens were left homeless after a night of riots on the streets of Tottenham after a peaceful demonstration on 6 August over the death of a man who was shot by police turned violent. Here is a timeline of what happened, starting with most recent events. Sh*tzkrieg - European Wars - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/09. Tenured Radical. I was not shocked by the budget debacle in the United States last month: it seemed inevitable.
Nor was I surprised that the stock market subsequently collapsed like a warm ice cream cone following Standard & Poor’s taking Congress and President Obama to the woodshed. (All right, I’m a bit concerned about my investments. But Chri$t on a Cracker, somebody had to put the hurt on our politicians in a way they could understand!) However, I could not believe my eyes when I saw, four days ago, that Londoners had begun to riot in Tottenham following the shooting of a black man by police. Live reports from the BBC are here, along with analysis by MPs, community activists and broadcasters who are dramatically smarter and more articulate than most of the television journalists that can be found on the 180+ cable channels that I receive courtesy of Comcast. What commenters in the U.S. are not connecting to is that this is the second major riot in twelve months.
I mean think about it. ABC News, London Riots Blame Twitter. London rioters: 'Showing the rich we do what we want' Panic on the streets of London. I’m huddled in the front room with some shell-shocked friends, watching my city burn.
The BBC is interchanging footage of blazing cars and running street battles in Hackney, of police horses lining up in Lewisham, of roiling infernos that were once shops and houses in Croydon and in Peckham. Last night, Enfield, Walthamstow, Brixton and Wood Green were looted; there have been hundreds of arrests and dozens of serious injuries, and it will be a miracle if nobody dies tonight. This is the third consecutive night of rioting in London, and the disorder has now spread to Leeds, Liverpool, Bristol and Birmingham. Politicians and police officers who only hours ago were making stony-faced statements about criminality are now simply begging the young people of Britain’s inner cities to go home.
Britain is a tinderbox, and on Friday, somebody lit a match. Violence is rarely mindless. Riots: the underclass lashes out. London and UK riots day three aftermath: live coverage. 6.45am: Good morning.
After a third day and night of rioting and looting, disturbances spread from the centre of London to the outer fringes of the city and to other cities, with similar scenes repeated in Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool and Bristol. Welcome to our latest live blog. Here's a summary of the Monday's events: • Rioting spread throughout London from Monday afternoon onwards and into the early hours of Tuesday morning.
London Riots: Shop-owners defend their businesses in east London - video. What David Cameron needs to do. Police stand in line as a building burns in Tottenham The Prime Minister caught a 3am flight back from Italy.
At 6.30 yesterday evening, No 10 was still saying that Mr Cameron was keeping in close touch and there was no need for him to come back, but the images of the Croydon furniture shop in flames and the steady spread of violence across London and in Birmingham made that unsustainable. He's given in to the inevitable, and while some will be tempted to focus on the time it took for him to realise he had to return, what should preoccupy us should be the 'and now what? ' Journalisten aangevallen in Londen. Clapham Junction looting. Leaving an apocalyptic London Rd Croydon cause we've bee. Am.
London Riots - Police Overrun in Woolwich (8th Aug 2011) - YouTube. London Riots - Police Overrun in Woolwich (8th Aug 2011) London Riots - Scum steal from injured boy. London riots spread police lose control London Riots 2011 Completed Photo and Video. In London, groups of young people rampaged for a third straight night, setting buildings, vehicles and garbage dumps alight, looting stores and pelting police officers with bottles and fireworks. The spreading disorder was an unwelcome warning of the possibility of violence for leaders organizing the 2012 Summer Olympics in less than a year.
Police called in hundreds of reinforcements – and made a rare decision to deploy armored vehicles in some of the worst-hit districts – but still struggled to keep pace with the chaos unfolding at flashpoints across London, in the central city of Birmingham, the western city of Bristol and the northwestern city of Liverpool. Authorities acknowledged that major new bouts of violence had badly stretching their resources. “The violence we have seen is simply inexcusable. Ordinary people have had their lives turned upside down by this mindless thuggery,” police commander Christine Jones said. Darcus Howe vs Edwina Curry on London riots (08Aug11)
h2q5svwj Shared by. h7lssehaj Shared by ChiswickW4. Donna Bowater's Photo. 8 August 2011 London riots: Report from Clapham Junction CNN caught in the middle. London calling: a haunting glimpse into our future? The riots spreading through London are a terrifying reminder of what lies ahead as the austerity-obsessed West nosedives into economic collapse.
The markets plummet and London burns. Whatever your political inclinations may be, there’s no denying the apocalyptic quality to the headlines coming out of Europe’s largest city right now. Manchester police confront suspected rioters.
Identify The London Rioters. London riots: before and after the destruction in Croydon, Hackney and Enfield. NUS president backs 'direct action' Over the past few months, Liam Burns has watched with admiration – and possibly a little jealousy – the stellar growth of the protest group UK Uncut. The group, thought up by 10 friends in a north London pub last year, has gained notoriety by staging sit-ins at high street stores, whose owners it accuses of tax avoidance.
Babies and pensioners – not to mention students – have taken part in UK Uncut's activities, making it the fastest-growing protest group in the country. Demonstrations by the group have forced several high street bank branches to close temporarily. But it has also attracted controversy. London riots. Agent aangevallen met bijl. Wijzigingen in de Telecommunicatiewet maken dat iedere website de verplichting heeft te informeren over het gebruik van cookies. Ook dient toestemming gevraagd te worden voor het specifieke gebruik van cookies. We beseffen dat dit lastig en zelfs klantonvriendelijk kan overkomen. Bij voorbaat onze excuses hiervoor. Wie zijn die relschoppers en wat willen ze? - Buitenland. Redactie − 09/08/11, 11:05 © epa. Relschoppers plunderen een winkel in Londen. 'Rellen Londen veroorzaakt door games' There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored.
Police in riot gear in Enfield, north London, on Sunday night. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters Since the coalition came to power just over a year ago, the country has seen multiple student protests, occupations of dozens of universities, several strikes, a half-a-million-strong trade union march and now unrest on the streets of the capital (preceded by clashes with Bristol police in Stokes Croft earlier in the year). Each of these events was sparked by a different cause, yet all take place against a backdrop of brutal cuts and enforced austerity measures. The government knows very well that it is taking a gamble, and that its policies run the risk of sparking mass unrest on a scale we haven't seen since the early 1980s. With people taking to the streets of Tottenham, Edmonton, Brixton and elsewhere over the past few nights, we could be about to see the government enter a sustained and serious losing streak. Nothing 'mindless' about rioters. Civil disturbances never have a single, simple meaning.
When the Bastille was being stormed the thieves of Paris doubtless took advantage of the mayhem to rob houses and waylay unlucky revolutionaries. Sometimes the thieves were revolutionaries. Sometimes the revolutionaries were thieves. Westminster vows to evict social tenants involved in riots. David Cameron may finally have found community spirit amongst the riot clean up, but recent events spell the end for his Big Society fantasy. Following the looting and vandalism in areas across London on Monday evening, hundreds of people came out to help clear up the mess and put their neighbourhoods back on track.
Blaming a moral decline for the riots makes good headlines but bad policy. Both David Cameron and Ed Miliband made excellent speeches last week and there was much to agree with in what they said. None the less, in the overall commentary on the riots, I think we are in danger of the wrong analysis leading to the wrong diagnosis, leading to the wrong prescription. Riot psychology. Birmingham riots: intense anger after deaths of three young men. A police forensics officer inspects the scene where three young British Asian men were killed by a car driven by suspected looters in the Winson Green area of Birmingham. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters.
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Met de cookies voor advertenties en social media worden mogelijk door derden gegevens verzameld buiten de websites van de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep. Bij instellingen kun je aangeven deze cookies niet te accepteren. Tottenham / Riots UK. London Riots. London Riots. #LondonRiots #Cleanup #UK - 02myVitAct01_201108. From Self-Mutilation to Self-Organisation « nomadic utopianism. De Groene A'dammer: De verloren verontwaardiging. Daan Heerma van Voss (@DaanHvVoss) sur Twitter. Will the Revolution Begin in London?