DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

Sending a coded message to Pav to come home.

One of the main Russian papers apparently called the violence a 'pogrom', which seems a little odd.

"Go home, get a takeaway and watch anything that happens on TV," one constable advised. "These are bad people who did this. Kids out of control. When I was young it was all Pacman and board games. Now they're playing Grand Theft Auto and want to live it for themselves."

DING DING DING! Tabloid Hysteria Bingo, just claimed "someone blaming violent video games" square.

One of the main Russian papers apparently called the violence a 'pogrom', which seems a little odd.

Must have been watchhing Sky:

Weirdly, the lead clip Sky was using appeared to show a whole bunch of Orthodox Jewish geezers either running to or from the riot

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:55 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

@victorialine Victoria Line
I am part suspended with no service between Stockwell and Brixton at the request of the police.. There's a good service on the rest of me.
1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply

;_;

irrelevant to the thread but I'm not sure about tube lines tweeting in the first person.

s/b the first person plural for the victoria (= royal we).

Wife just called me from outside Green Lanes Sainsburys. Whole retail park locked down apart from Costa Coffee.

Sainsbury's was open as normal yesterday. There's apparently information that six areas are going to be hit today - that might be one of them. Would be suicidal to try to loot anything around Green Lanes other than the business park, though.

There's a good service on the rest of me.

potential new username for someone.

Sainsbury's was open as normal yesterday.

Cheap toastie sammiches?

And it does say something to me, that they're not just *stealing* the things, but venting huge amounts of anger at the shops selling them. We may not see those shops as appropriate targets, but I do wonder what they represent to the people trashing them.

lol i also just read no logo.

xp, Come nightfall there may be cheap toasted everything.

I've never read No Logo, btw, so I'm not sure what you're saying.

Also first person tube service updates is surely what the interwebs was made for!

(agree on the Royal We, though.)

i think if any tube line i used tweeted at me in the first person, i'd be tempted to tweet so much abuse and vitriol back and it'd maybe send me a bit insane

(agree on the royal we obv!)

[oh my bad, no logo is partly about nike and their peers and how evils they are on many different levels, incl. fucking over inner cities specifically and the resentment that builds]

Lots and lots of police in Mare Street Narrow Way now; not sure if anything is happening beyond this: http://yfrog.com/h792815653j

Is he obsessively checking Twitter?

police are behind the times, this is the blackberry messenger revolution.

http://ishackneyriotingyet.com/

He is checking when the John Maus poll closes.

hey guys maybe a hipster will be hurt in these hackney riots!!111 lol! no doubt they started over a fixie bike!!!!

Oh god, even Diane Abbott is using the appalling "kicking off in..." tweetform now. ;_;

Expecting some enlightened chants from Everton fans when they go to White Hart Lane this weekend.

"In your Tottenham slums"

"Is this Toxteth in disguise?"

5.04pm: Our correspondent Vikram Dodd reports that Scotland Yard has introduced special powers in four areas, allowing officers to stop and search suspects without reasonable suspicion. The powers are contained in section 60 of the Public Order Act. The areas are Lambeth, Haringey, Enfield and Waltham Forest. The section 60 powers were invoked around midnight on Sunday following a second night of serious disorder to hit London.

Yeah that's gonna go down well.

serhiy rebrov got there first

tbh theres nothing police can do in this instance that will be perfect

surely there are enough ppl for the police to worry abt without hassling randoms

BBC News just called people smashing up a bus and looting cardboard from a van "protesters" and "demonstrators". FFS.

In Whitechapel, Sainsbury's staff intent on causing a riot by closing the store now.

is that true james? i was going to go there after work. TIME TO RIOT.

sorry i said riot, i meant "reluctantly buy vegetables in waitrose".

sort of bewildering how the police just stand around watching shops and buses being smashed up

Yep they're not letting anyone in.

girl on BBC News just now:

"maybe they are proving a point, that we don't know what the point is that they are trying to prove"

you'd almost think the policy have a vested interest in making black kids look bad

letting ppl smash shit up then going indiscrimately postal seems to be the 2k11 way

win-win!

Girl on BBC News doing a creditable job of explaining why Tottenham was different.

policy, police ehhh

BBC helicopter has run out of fuel

Big win here for Whitechapel Road Tesco Metro.

Apparently Kurdish and Turkish shopkeepers in Green Lanes and Stoke Newington have got the knives and baseball bats in.

is it wrong to feel a twinge of local pride in that?

Not at all. Good luck to them.

Wouldn't mess with those guys

lewisham lulz now according to sky