Tag: Human Rights; Riots; Moral Panics
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Keith Ewing: The Sound of Silence – Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and the ‘Riots’
In the second week of August, Britain’s political classes were gripped by panic as a number of English cities experienced ‘rioting’ and looting on a scale unknown in modern times. The situation was eventually brought under control, with the Metropolitan police flooding the streets of London with 16,000 officers. No one can question the damage…