A year after the English riots, Miranda Iossifidis and Philippa Thomas review the means by which scholarship and the media have reacted, disputed and converged in their responses. To what extent have these efforts been productive, and what voices are still to be heard?
Reflections on the Summer 2011 English Riots one year on: the 'Underclass', welfare retrenchment and workfare regimes.
The punitive judicial response to the riots has left a lasting legacy of damage and stigma
A report of the second trial of UK Uncut activists who occuped the high class grocers Fortnum and Masons in March last year, by a defendant in the first. It too seems certain likely to confirm that in a political case the UK's legal system starts from the verdict and tries to ensure nothing distur
'Underclass', 'feral', 'feckless': these terms have gained new currency after England's August riots. Although not explicitly racist, together they form a coded language that casts working class and Black communities as the 'enemies within'.
The re-emergence of a certain vocabulary that stigmatizes the working class, benefit seekers, and the black community, is becoming increasingly mainstream in Britain. So why now, and who stands to benefit?
A new independent documentary tells the story of last month's riots in Tottenham from the point of view of local residents. Definitely worth a watch,
After England's riots, the Prime Minister has pledged to replace the Human Rights Act with "our own British bill of rights". But the HRA is already quintessentially British, and the rights it enshrines are needed more than ever if we are to heal 'Broken Britain'
David Cameron pledged in the wake of England's riots to address the country's 'rights not responsibilities' culture. Will the Liberal Democrats stand firm against the Prime Minister's hostility to human rights legislation?
Today the trial of nine UK Uncut activists begins. They had superglued themselves to Topshop last year in protest against tax avoidance by the super-rich. Their trial comes at a pivotal time, as England undergoes a post-riots crackdown on the right to protest
