Jennifer James recovers from the London riots with a week in Provence
The Insider spent an interesting week during the recent London riots. Mark Duggan, the black father of four, initially reported to have shot a policeman (IPCC sources now say the officer was a victim of “friendly fire”) and who was himself shot dead in Tottenham two weeks ago, died a relatively short distance from the Broadwater Farm Estate. It was therefore predictable that his death would stir local emotions and trigger unhappy memories of the rioting that happened there in the early 1980s.
Civilised society?
His death barely made the news at all (page 21 of the Daily Mail two days after the event). In a supposedly civilised society, the shooting to death in broad daylight of a young man on a busy London street deserves more prominent reporting and a more thoughtful response to the family and friends of the deceased. That the dead man’s supporters chose to march; that they felt they had to march in order to get some answers (and were still blanked by the police at that
