September 18, 2011

London Riots Rupture Britain's Ruling Class

Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail

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The violence is done, for now. But what’s opened up is a rupture in the ruling classes over how the riots should be understood and confronted. Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party has spoken in three distinct and disharmonious voices.

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