![]() Looked like Greggs might go too, the last I saw. Stet, it was the building next to Greggs (Regen's babyware, it had a pleasingly old-fashioned sign) which was the one which was filmed burning. It is possible she has not heard the news she has completely given up on TV and doesn't get a paper, so it would have to be via the radio which she listens to sometimes or if one of the carers mentioned it. My mother still lives in Edmonton, but she is housebound, suffers from anxiety illness and has carers to look after her. How much of that is to do with a uni education and living in different places broadening the mind and how much is to do with having stronger emotional ties to a place if you have never left it I am not entirely sure. Generally their views were far less liberal than what we see on here. It was interesting comparing and contrasting the reactions on this thread with those of Facebook friends from school, some of whom have never left the area. I grew up in Edmonton and went to school in Enfield. Not sure when the last time I had such an emotional response to something on the news, probably 7/7. I must admit that the tears started welling up when watching the news yesterday evening. It was heartening to hear about the #riotcleanup - not only from the point of view of community spirit in the right direction but also to help silence the "blame the medium" nonsense. My wife and her mates are the only people I know who have experienced such a thing AFAIK, when they were kids under Martial Law in Poland in the eighties. Wonder how they found out about the Cabinet's mobile phone habits?ĭiane Abbott on BBC Breakfast this morning demonstrating how she is not a serious politician by calling for a curfew. The technology did not exist for previous prime ministers. ![]() Mr Blair, a technophobe, has only learnt to do so since standing down, and Gordon Brown never texted when he was in Downing Street - he preferred to send e-mails, typed in angry capital letters. He is the first resident of No 10 to text. The Prime Minister has two BlackBerrys - a personal one and an official one - so that he can send private notes away from the prying eyes of his civil servants. ![]() After the Christchurch earthquake, Mr Cameron even tapped out his condolences to his New Zealand counterpart in a text message. Boris Johnson was once given an SMS dressing-down after a perceived act of disloyalty. "It's just too texty," They mope if they fail to get a congratulatory text from the PM the traditionalists on the backbenches used to moan. The Prime Minister and his deputy, Nick Clegg, texted with the intensity of new lovers when they were still in their Ikea-furniture building phase. Mr Cameron communicates regularly with George Osborne, Michael Gove and William Hague via text. Cabinet ministers who have successfully driven through a difficult government Bill, or seen off Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight, will get an immediate "Well done - DC" pinging into their phone. The Times explaining how BlackBerrys work. None of this is evidence of mindlessness, and to declare it so is to hide from reality. Some deep, possibly incoherent rage against authority and a safer, kinder more prosperous world they can't join might be part of this story too. These may be greed, hatred, a craving for status, for battle and excitement and for an antisocial sort of liberty. They will be bad reasons, even when miserably explicable. But people who riot do have minds, and in these lie the reasons for their rioting. I know why the word is used: it expresses our incredulity and sometimes points to the rioting's counter-productiveness - that's the meaning, I think, that David Lammy deployed when he used "mindless" in his strong and nuanced statement yesterday. Rioting is often described as "mindless." The problem is, it's not. Thought this was a very human, decent post on the whole thing:Ģ. bringing in the territorial army (which isn't exactly like the NG, there isn't an equivalent) would be defcon 5 shit. you can pretty much count the minutes before the tories bring in new weaponry for police, but this is a big cultural difference we have with the US. ― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi Tuesday, Aug1:01 AM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Jesus so they send dudes out there with helmets and riot shields and billy clubs and.um.good luck mate? goddamnĭo you guys have a national guard type thing you could call in? I can't rly listen to him, because he's awful, but the 'political context' is not exactly something that began in may 2008 is it? ― Now he's doing horse (DL), Tuesday, Aug12:57 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark He seems to be one of the few people capable of explaining the political context while still condemning the looters - most pundits can only manage one or the other. Xp Surprised you're so down on Ken Livingstone, Matt.
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