The youth riots and disturbances in the U.K. may have calmed, but important questions still smolder in the wreckage left behind. Britain’s leaders pin the violence and looting on “sheer criminality”; the word “feral” was conspicuous in some coverage of the disturbances. But criminal opportunism is not a sufficient explanation. TIME …
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Dispatch from Tottenham: Where the U.K. Riots First Started
As the crow flies Tottenham is eight miles from the center of London. As the traffic creeps, that translates to 45 minutes by car. The route takes one through the boroughs of Islington and Hackney—the latter still largely poor, but streaked by pockets of growing gentrification. To the right for much of the route one can see a mass …
Old Class Tensions Simmer in New, Post-Revolutionary Egypt
TIME’s Cairo correspondent Abigail Hauslohner continues her examination of aftermath of Egypt’s revolution. As Islamists and liberal factions begin to shape a new future for their country, one group is being left out of the political discussion: the working class. Wealthier, educated, urban citizens have seen much of their revolutionary …