Ultra-Thatcherite Ultra-Violence

My reaction to the London disturbances, which I witnessed first hand, is online at Trebuchet Magazine. To some on the left it will be heretical, yet I don't believe this is the time for self-censorship or keeping diplomatically silent about what you see happening in front of you. The fact that England's public institutions are rotten, corrupt and violent doesn't mean that what happened wasn't at its heart an ultra-Thatcherite kleptocratic insurgency rather than the liberating revolution some would like it to be...