Posted by Katharine Sacks-Jones, Agenda · August 16, 2016 10:48 AM
It’s five years last weekend since the 2011 London riots. The reasons behind the rioting are almost certainly varied and complex, but what’s clear is that the violence shone a light on a group in British society which is often ignored or dismissed by the mainstream, and for a moment we paid attention to the young men in all of our big cities whose lives are characterised by lack of opportunity, poverty, violence, and mistrust.
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