The Sons of Brixton

London is burning. And over four consecutive nights, the conflagration has engulfed multiple cities across the United Kingdom, including Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Nottingham, and Leeds. According to some early estimates, the total cost of the vandalism and extra police could run into the hundreds of millions of pounds. In response, British Prime Minister David Cameron has recalle

[Midas]

サッチャーは戦争に勝てたがキャメロンはアフガンで負けた後始末をしてるだけ。今や英国は巨大な借金で国家破産。「警察力増強」は半分リップサービス。暴動は敗戦に伴う英国の中東化(治安レベルがイラク並)でもある

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Thatcher’s neoliberal medicine was equally unpopular in 1981, but she was under no illusions as to what was required to enforce austerity and remains famous to this day for having argued in a 1987 interview that “there [was] no such thing as society.” Cameron’s assumptions have been challeng