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Comment: Boris Johnson and youth violence in London
On April 23rd, The Guardian published an article entitled “Boris Johnson ‘has done virtually nothing to tackle youth violence’“. Professor Gus John commented on the news story, saying: Ron Belgrave is finally lifting the lid on the sham that passed as Boris Johnson’s engagement with the issue of serious youth violence in London and in
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Black, Asian, minority ethnic communities and inner city riots
The following speech was delivered at the “Beyond the Unrest – Community Safety & Civil Society” seminar, promoted by the BME Leadership & Engagement project, on November 29th, 2011. The subject I have been asked to address is vast and it is simply impossible to do justice to it in the time I have been
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Moss Side riots: the struggle to find a way through troubled waters
When Benet Hytner QC was doused with a jug of water by a member of public, he might have known the course of the Moss Side riots inquiry would not run smooth. Mr Hytner, as he chaired the open hearing, was drenched by a man left disgruntled by a previous high court case in which
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