There is really nothing to say about the London riots that has not been said already. All sensible and moral people must condemn these criminal acts, for which the perpetrators are to blame. But, of course, every criminal and/or sinful act has a history behind it, and these criminal outbreaks are no exception. On that subject I defer to Melanie Phillips, who is spot on in her analysis:
I have written for more than two decades on the various elements that have contributed to this collapse of order: family breakdown and mass fatherlessness; the toleration and even encouragement of grossly inadequate parenting; educational collapse which damages most those at the bottom of the social heap; welfare dependency; political correctness and the vicious injustices and moral inversion of victim culture; the grossly irresponsible toleration of soft drug-taking; the shuddering distaste at the notion of punishment and the consequent collapse of authority in the entire criminal justice system; the implosion of the policing ethic and the police retreat from the streets; the increasing organisation and boldness of anarchist and left-wing subversive activity; and the growth of irrationality, narcissistic self-centredness and mob rule and the near-certainty of a fundamental breakdown of morality and order.
