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Riots, class politics and democracy: all is not as it seems
ANDREW MURRAY reviews studies on the motivations of last August's rioters and dwindling support for 'democracy' in its modern Western incarnation

CLASS politics. Easy to invoke, sometimes challenging to apply.
No fewer than four separate opinion surveys in the last fortnight have brought this home.
The first, the work of the Children’s Commissioner, found that working-class youth involved in last summer’s anti-migrant riots were largely animated not by racism but by hatred of the police and frustration at lack of opportunities.
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