Paul Gilroy speaks on the riots, August 2011, Tottenham, North London

Paul Gilroy speaks on the riots, August 2011, Tottenham, North London (the dream of safety)
►http://dreamofsafety.blogspot.com/2011/08/paul-gilroy-speaks-on-riots-august-2011.html

The question is supposed to be was there politics in this rioting, or was it just a cry for help or a cry for things. And I think the question shouldn’t be was there politics in this rioting and looting, but is there politics in this country? Because when you have three parties who are saying the same thing...[applause] there’s no politics in Britain. There’s a kind of entertainment, there’s a bit of theatre, which is delivered to people, in the face of what is a desperate situation, which can only get worse, and can’t just be understood from a local perspective. It can’t just be understood from what’s going on here—we need to think about what’s going on in other parts of the world which the crisis has touched. (...)

the dream of safety: Paul Gilroy speaks on the #riots, August 2011, Tottenham, North #London
►http://dreamofsafety.blogspot.com/2011/08/paul-gilroy-speaks-on-riots-august-2011.html

[it’s not] the same game as it was thirty years ago, or twenty-five years ago (...) For instance, the police admitted that they’ve done a hundred thousand searches under the new terrorism legislation, and of those hundred thousand searches not one, not one, led to an arrest under the terrorism legislation!

#inégalités #royaume-uni via @supergeante