Business
By Bagehot
RETURNING to Britain on the weekend from holidays in France, Bagehot had a sobering force from Dover up into London, previous boarded-up retail outlets and restaurants and van after parked van of police officers with irregular cap badges and uniforms: officers on secondment from Hampshire, Wiltshire and beyond, serving to to bring aloof to the capital by sheer weight of manpower. Great has been written and said already by commentators and politicians of the left, correct and centre. Conserving in contact with the suggestions from home by Blackberry, I noticed the disorder and looting variously blamed on gangs, gross parenting, rap tune, computer games, consumerism, fair breakdown, softy police chiefs, coalition cuts, unemployment, racism, anti-racism and the gross examples situation by bankers and expense-fiddling MPs. I read an article comparing London to Mogadishu (by a correspondent for Der Spiegel), and declaring that tremulous residents were fleeing for the continent by Eurostar.
