[Jamesy]

Attention? I was in Spain when the full outburst of the riots happened so I was pretty much watching Sky news every hour. The kind of official line is that it stems from the shooting of Mark Duggan, where protests in Tottenham began, then that spread to violence with police, then riots in Tottenham, then other parts of London followed, then the next minute other parts of the UK followed.

I don't bother looking at it in any deep manner. I don't think there is any deep meaning at all as to why the riots spread like wildfire. Attention seemed to be the main thing. Across my Facebook I was invited to groups to start a riot in my city centre (which never happened) and a lot of statuses by people asking others to join them in 'getting on the news'.

For me it's just one of those bizarre things that there is no real reason for. It was meaningless violence and criminality, and aside from Tottenham, there was no reason for it.