on their way and ensure they are not inconvenienced, while hammering the poor and soon-to-be-poor with cuts in services, in pay and in quality of life to pay for the fecklessness and selfishness of the privileged few. Morality and respect for the rule of law evaporate in a society where there is so much unfairness and imbalance, and where the government is seen to be actively perpetuating that injustice. I have just heard a Wolverhampton woman on radio WM talking about how she "defended" her shop. It seemed to consist of standing outside and asking the 2-300 young people walking down the road smashing windows not to touch her shop. She must have sworn at them too, but couldn't say on radio, because she commented that they were not only polite and respectful to her but asked her not to swear at them! However - given a human face to their destruction, they clearly chose a different path, which i think is interesting in itself. Another comment she made was that an 18 year old girl was "carrying a hammer in a gucci bag" which seems to fit in with the tone of this article quite well. I don't really get these riots, but when were people my age ever supposed to understand young people? "Late on Monday night, news went round Twitter that Turkish shopkeepers on Stoke Newington Road in Dalston were fighting off the marauders with baseball bats, and someone tweeted: "Bloody immigrants. Coming over here, defending our