Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to BenWilson,
What? No personality test?
We're not as picky as we used to be.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to BenWilson,
I think we're learning right now that neither one can save us
Glad to have you on board. I have some literature.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
but pragmatically optimistic about the human capacity for muddling through.
Sure, if you look around at the financial markets or at the state of social services in this or most other developed nations, we are muddling through just splendidly, aren't we?
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Russell Brown,
That wasn’t the case with Tariq Ali
Is it ever?
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Russell Brown,
But that Addley story was so good because it actually conveyed what the people in those neighbourhoods had to say, rather than having it said for them.
Proving once again that people can be eloquent and lucid in stressful circumstances - it's just that shoving a microphone in their faces in front of a camera is not the best way to bring it out.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'm continuing to find good reporting much more compelling than any amount of hand-wringing analysis.
Duh. And I find good analysis better than bad reporting, so I guess we're even? But I think it's pretty obvious that we need the good kind of both.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I'll say.
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The truth is that riots almost always hurt poor, working class people. There's no riot that embodies a pure struggle for justice, that is not also partly a self-inflicted wound. There is no riot without looting, without anti-social behaviour, without a mixture of bad motives and bad politics. That still doesn't mean that the riot doesn't have a certain political focus; that it doesn't have consequences for the ability of the ruling class to keep control; that the contest with the police is somehow taking place outside of its usual context of suspicion borne of institutional racism and brutality. The rioters here, whenever they've been asked, have made it more than abundantly clear what their motives are - most basically, repaying years of police mistreatment.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to DexterX,
The only disadvantage is that civil unrest could eventually become an election issue, but it could be spun in favour of the conservative party as a Law and Order issue only?
I think the government that chose Theresa "the British public don't simply resort to violent unrest in the face of challenging economic circumstances" May as Minister of Police might have some difficulty making that argument.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Say, this reminds me I should try to make contact with my sister.