Interesting Links for 05-08-2024

[andrewducker]

1. What fueled the Southport riots?

(tags:protests riots migration bigotry UK disinformation russia )

2. Tory PCC puts deleted statement on far-right riots which drew support from Tommy Robinson back on her website

(tags:UK conservatives bigotry riots )

3. Retribution will be swift, Starmer warns racist rioters

(tags:racism riots uk )

4. Edinburgh council leader wants powers devolved from Scottish Government to regions

(tags:Scotland government )

5. How the UK criminal justice system deals with a riot

(tags:UK riots crime )

6. The UK laws in place to tackle rioters and the prison sentences they carry

(tags:UK riots law )

7. Error and fraud in business tax schemes cost the UK £4.1bn

(tags:uk research tax OhForFucksSake fraud )

8. Children of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight

(tags:spying children russia )

Comments

[cmcmck]

Interesting item on the riots which shows what happens when people actually stop and interact for a bit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84jjv7kp1wo

[gingicat]

Wow, thank you for sharing that.

[cmcmck]

It made my day.

[andrewducker]

Thank you, that was lovely.

And highlights one of the things I firmly believe - which is that a lot of people know that there are problems, lack the capacity (or energy or background or context or have some other barrier) to understand why society works so badly for them, and then are easily captured by someone saying "It's them! Those are the people who are to blame!"

The only way to fix this problem in the long term is to make society work better for everyone.

[cmcmck]

Absolutely.

[gingicat]

I'm sure that the kid's parents being Rwandan had *nothing* to do with the racism. /sarcasm