Guardian blog

[nadinbrzezinski]

7.48am: As the riots die down, the commentators have been having their say. Here is a selection:

9In the Daily Telegraph, Allison Pearson asks how we ended up "with some of the most indisciplined and frighteningly moronic youngsters in Europe". In a thoughtful piece, she says parents must take responsibility:

What our young people need is adults to stop abdicating authority. They need police to police, teachers to teach, parents to parent, politicians and clergy to give moral leadership, and, above all, they need more people like Pauline Pearce, the jazz-singing Jamaican grandmother who fearlessly took on rioters and saved a white man from the mob.

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This is a classic law and order response, and predictable as the sun rises in the East

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7.31am: The focus today will switch to parliament, which has been recalled for a special one-day session to discuss the unrest. The prime minister, David Cameron, will make a statement in which he is expected to spell out further plans to deal with the disorder and compensate riot-damaged businesses. Political leaders have been attacked for being impotent in the face of the riots. There will be intense pressure on holiticians to come up with answers about how both to regain control of the streets in the short term, and what to do about the causes and longer-term repercussions.

There will also doubtless be pressure over planned cuts to the police force. Our political editor, Patrick Wintour, reports today that Cameron is facing growing cabinet pressure to rethink the policing cuts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/11/uk-riots-day-five-aftermath-live

Pressure to see why and to rethink cuts... that is interesting.

Disclaimer, getting it does not mean one condones it.

[cwydro]

1. The riots are bullshit...

yobbos (chavs) running around being crazy for no good reason.

My opinion.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yep more than a few are

why are they doing it? THe usual facile answers, FROM Experience usually don't work when you look into it. The pressure to slow down on the austerity is part of your answer.

But that they are... yobos, chavs, homeboys, homeys, barrio boy... yep, same story all over the world.

As I said, getting it don't mean I condone it...