Riots and God
Posted: 10th Aug 2011 (13 comments)
Riots and God
Many people had long felt that there was something very nasty lurking beneath the placid waters of British society. The sudden, brutal and mindless violence that erupted in large parts of London and other cities over the last few days was an unpleasant demonstration that this potential for nastiness was not only real, but closer to the surface than anybody feared. Just as troubling was the realisation that the police – those traditional guardians of the once secure British way of life – might be powerless to deal with it.
