: UK Riots | A social media view

Calm seems to have descended across the nation. Now its time for analysis and the odd pithy comment and insightful analysis.

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jimmyosmond Jimmy Osmond - Have been shocked at the footage I’ve seen of the UK riots, my heart goes out to those effected, stay safe

@BBCNews downgrading their headlines from UK Riots to England Riots. Media has a lot to answer for here. Keep that contained, fools!

raganwald The UK riots are clear confirmation of my long-held view that [insert pre-existing worldview here].—Pete Bevin

”Things got a bit out of hand and we’d had a few drinks. We smashed the place up and Boris set fire to the toilets’ – David Cameron, Oxford, 1986

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The Bullingdon Club is a socially exclusive student dining club at Oxford University. The club has no permanent rooms and is notorious for its members’ wealth and destructive binges. [1] Membership is by invitation only, and prohibitively expensive for most, given the need to pay for the uniform, di…

Scally interviewed by Sky News complaining of no money, no things etc…was wearing an Armarni Coat! #manchesterriots

PaulSmith7 If you’re wearing new trainers this morning I am going to judge you #manchesterriots

Loads of young people going down Canal Street, with brushes & bin bags helping to clean the city up, good on you! #manchesterriots

jaykneale: London joins #AmyWinehouse and #Norway in the growing list of victims of Rupert Murdochs ‘Operation Distraction’ #londonriots

Theo Maximilian Goble may go and get a new mac laptop. I won’t be looting mind, I’ll probably walk into the shop and hand over a wad of cash to the person behind the till … I know this is the old-fashioned way of ‘shopping’ in London but hey!
Mark McConnell Apple have taken away all Macs and are keeping them hidden…the secret password is…”I’d like to PAY for a computer”!

#riotcleanup is Britain’s society at it’s best. Well done to all those volunteers!

My son went to Clapham Junction for the #riotcleanup today. Can you please ask him to do his bedroom next @fluffybabeyx

Balanced piece on the rioting kids. A dad’s perspective http://t.co/uwESfDI

urbsmanchester Overall, some smashed glass and a very small number of shops looted. Looks like after a very, very rough Saturday night #manchesterriots

wrongangle Bullingdon Club alumnus Boris Johnson berating rioters for demonstrating “a sense of entitlement” on the Today programme. #beyondparody

sbstevebrown My dad just called the riots The X-Box Riots. “They just want a bloody X-Box and some cool ‘stuff’”.

iaintait That warehouse fire has shagged my favorite labels: Warp, XL, Soma, Border Community, Fatcat, Ninja Tunes, Domino`http://bit.ly/rkVd5k