Mad Mobs and Englishmen? Myths and realities of the 2011 riots (Free Kindle Book) – By Steve Reicher

In August 2011, London and many other English towns and cities erupted into some of the worst rioting for decades. David Cameron blamed a broken society with a sick morality; Tony Blair a defiant underclass. Yet with no evidence to support their claims, their remarks were typical of the storm of uninformed comments that followed the riots, based largely on longstanding…