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David Starkey

By On August 20, 2011

Was re-reading Enoch Powell instead of Mike Gold.

Ku Klux moralizers say the gangster system is not American. They say it was brought here by “low-class” European immigrants. […] But it is America that has taught the sons of tubercular Jewish tailors how to kill.

— Jews Without Money (pg. 37)

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The Prince and the Pauper

By On August 15, 2011

By Asad Haider and Salar Mohandesi

“The general lesson learnt by political England from its experience of pauperism is none other than that, in the course of history and despite all administrative measures, pauperism has developed into a national institution which has inevitably become the object of a highly ramified and extensive administrative system, [...]

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Britain’s Deadliest Gang

By On August 10, 2011

Britain’s deadliest gang is the police. These are some of the people they have killed over the years. This list is not exhaustive, excluding deaths in prison and psychiatric care, and many where culpability is unclear.

Mark Duggan, d. 6 August 2011, aged 29

The father of four was shot dead [...]

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Looting And The Right to Luxury

By On August 9, 2011

Everyone is shocked – shocked I say! – by the looting happening in London. Where did these renegade youths learn to break into stores and snatch as much as they could carry?

I have hazy memories of these commercials, of imagining what it would be like to walk through a store and take all you [...]

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