Rioting spreading through London & to other English cities.

We only have riots when the Tories are in power.

Football violence at soccer/football game between West Ham United F.C. fans and Stoke City F.C. fans, both inside the stadium and outside. United Kingdom[citation needed]
2009 - Luton, United Kingdom, riot against Muslim extremists who disrupted a homecoming parade of British soldiers, May 24
2009 - Riot in Downtown Los Angeles after Lakers win the Championship, June 14
2009 - 2009 Iranian election protests
2009 - Protests against military coup in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 28 --?
2009 - July 2009 Ürümqi riots in Ürümqi, China, July 5 --?
2009 - Riots in Jerusalem after the welfare officials rescued toddler who was being starved by his abusive Ultra Orthodox mother who is a member of the small Toldos Aharon community, which does not recognized the state of Israel, municipal services were suspended to all neighborhoods where riots developed.
2009 - Riots in Pakistan's central Punjab, 8 dead.[59]
2009 – Riots in Birmingham, United Kingdom when far-right activists clash with anti-racism protesters and local members of the Muslim and Afro-Caribbean community on August 8, 2009.[60][61]
2009 – Arab protesters clashed with Israeli security forces during riots near Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel.[62]
2009 - Football violence before, at and after a Carling Cup match between West Ham United and Millwall in London at Upton Park. There where also 3 pitch invasions.
2009 - Football riot in Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1 dead.
2009 - Bastille Day Riots in the commune of Montreuil, France; July 9th
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This is yet another case of Chicken Little pretending he knows something about what goes on in the world outside the immediate range of his eyesight.

The problem is that both Finn and Hawkeye 'know' what's happening. They don't need to look at facts or evidence to make their minds up. Neither of them seem to realise that the UK is not the USA, and neither of them are prepared to learn anything.

Trouble at football matches, and tensions between extremists can not be classed as full scale rioting. Apples and Oranges as Setanta would say.

It is a bold attempt to control the story line to ones liking. It is also bullshit that deserves to be ignored.

Besides, now that you have staked a position you will now refute or ignore all evidence to the contrary, as this is how closed minded people like you operate.

Besides, now that you have staked a position you will now refute or ignore all evidence to the contrary, as this is how closed minded people like you operate.

It is not being narrow minded to reject complete nonsense.
Your likening of the rioters to the protesters in Egypt shows how little you understand what is going on.

Your likening of the rioters to the protesters in Egypt shows how little you understand what is going on.

So, to change the subject ..... have things settled down in Britain today?

It certainly sounds like it, given the lack of news reports of any fresh outbreaks.

The author claims she is is fed up with increasing levels of "sadistic misogyny" in crime fiction and says authors are simply jumping on the bandwagon to get a bestseller.
"Each psychopath is more sadistic than the last and his victims' sufferings are described in detail that becomes ever more explicit as young women are imprisoned, bound, eaten, starved, suffocated, stabbed, boiled or burned alive," she told the Observer.
"Authors must be free to write and publishers to publish. But critics must be free to say when they have had enough. So however many more outpourings of sadistic misogyny are crammed on to the bandwagon, no more will be reviewed by me," she added.
And the most disturbing plots are by female authors, she says.
"The trend cannot be attributed to an anti-feminist backlash because the most inventive fiction of this kind is written by women," she claims.
Natasha Cooper, former chair of the Crime Writer' Association, agrees with Ms Mann. She says women do this so they are taken seriously as authors.
"There is a general feeling that women writers are less important than male writers and what can save and propel them on to the bestseller list is if they produce at least one novel with very graphic violence in it to establish their credibility and prove they are not girly," she said.
The British market for crime fiction is worth more than £116m a year, with almost 21 million books sold.
Women account for more than 60 per cent of the readership with females over 55 the most avid readers.