Now that the debate is shifting to the social malaise that brought forth the riots, Mr. Cameron seems less sure-footed. By intensifying the law-and-order rhetoric, he has triggered charges of hypocrisy. While a student at Oxford, Mr. Cameron was a member of the exclusive, all-male Bullingdon Club, notorious for conduct scarcely distinguishable from that of the plebeian rioters. The persistent British grumble that there’s one law for the rich and privileged, another for the poor and downtrodden, is growing dangerously loud.
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