Proposals to cut back on social safety nets in the United Kingdom risk returning the country to a Dickensian era.
From: People & Power
English riots: people, police and politicians
This film deconstructs five days in August when England burned and asks whether it has now emerged from the ashes.
12 Oct 2011
Related
Kneejerk condemnations have drowned out any soul-searching about what has emboldened Britain’s youths to rage against the system.
If questions are not asked as to why the violence happened, the next riot will soon be upon Britain.
![Mobeen, 19, became famous after her five-second video went viral [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-03-02T100416Z_135452219_RC2Y2M9Z2O6X_RTRMADP_3_PAKISTAN-INDIA-SOCIALMEDIA-TREND.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![The book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, by Dr Seuss, will no longer be published due to insensitive and racist imagery [File: Steven Senne/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AP_21060773303558.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![Children look at a member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after leaving the ISIL group's last holdout of Baghouz in Syria's northern Deir Az Zor province [File: Bulent Kilic/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/000_9396F9.jpg?resize=170%2C113)
![The legislation, referred to locally as the burqa ban, does not specifically mention the facial coverings worn by Muslim women, but is largely seen to target them [File: Michael Buholzer/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2011-10-29T120000Z_1662285206_BM2E7AT1E3901_RTRMADP_3_SWITZERLAND.jpg?resize=170%2C113)