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August 10, 2011

Riots Shouldn't Surprise Tories

Alex Massie, Spectator

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If a riot has a hundred causes then it's caused by everything and anything and any all-purpose, universal explanation for it is bound to be implausible. When a 31 year old teacher is among the first people charged in the aftermath of the worst of the violence you can put away your handy explanations about youthful alienation and all the rest of it.

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