Are British Riots England's Tahrir?

British Riots: Elites "Shocked" The Poor Are Rising Up Against Brutal Austerity Measures | World | AlterNet: "Angry young people with nothing to do and little to lose are turning on their own communities, and they cannot be stopped, and they know it."

English cinema has some of the gems of youth alienation and one has only to ride a bus almost anywhere on the island to be aware, in the back, of the welling anger. It is a conundrum that will not be stanched by Mr. Cameron, probably happy that the Murdoch thing is bumped from the front page, and his law and order talk. A better approach would be to see democracy as a legitimate and universal value and to understand that, however distasteful anger's expression may be, the answer is always the extension of democracy and not what looks like a serious overreaction. Of course when others perceive this, the entire government could fall in a trice.

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