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Nightjar wrote:
Obviously, one thing we have failed on is the teaching of history.
Socrates made similar complaints about the lack of discipline among
children. Riots have been happening in Britain for centuries, often
driven by high prices, food shortages, high taxation, unpopular laws and
sometimes all of these. What is happening may be news, it is not new.

The majority of the riots in London at least had nothing to do with the
above. Just an opportunity to thieve when there were no police around.
What was new was how they were organised.

Nor is there anything new about kids shoplifting. Just the scale of it all
at one time.

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