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England riots 2011

November 2023

  • Hackney Walk, a shopping centre planned under the railway arches in Hackney, east London, April 2023

    ‘It was a case study for what not to do’: the regeneration project that became a £100m luxury ghost town

    The plan was to take old railway arches in a run-down area of east London and turn them into a high-end fashion hub. Instead, Hackney Walk ended up deserted. What went so disastrously wrong?

September 2022

  • ‘The broken toy symbolised everything else that was broken’ … the activist making a speech with his horse.

    My best shot
    A rioter with a rocking horse – Max Reeves’s best photograph

    ‘This was taken during the 2011 riots. I remember standing around waiting to see if a burning car would blow up’

August 2021

  • APTOPIX Britain Riot<br>A shop is set on fire as rioters gather in Croydon, south London, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. Violence and looting spread across some of London’s most impoverished neighborhoods on Monday, with youths setting fire to shops and vehicles, during a third day of rioting in the city that will host next summer’s Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Sang Tan) London riots rioting

    The England riots, 10 years on: ‘Young people were watching their futures disappear before their eyes’

    When the 2011 riots broke out, they were widely dismissed as plain criminality. A new work by artist Baff Akoto tells a different story – and shows how the civil unrest implicates us all
  • Stephen Reicher

    Why did it take years to appreciate the grievances that sparked the 2011 riots?

    Stephen Reicher
    The media and politicians consistently blame the madness of crowds, says psychologist Stephen Reicher

    • Today in Focus
      Racism, policing and austerity: have lessons been learned since England’s 2011 riots?

    • A decade after the riots, so little has been learned

    • Courts failed people ‘caught up’ in England riots in 2011, says ex-chief prosecutor

30 July 2021
  • Stafford Scott protested with Mark Duggan’s family after he was shot by police in 2011.

    ‘The Mark Duggan case was a catalyst’: the 2011 England riots 10 years on

    Key voices reflect on events that sparked civil unrest affecting a generation of young people
  • Riot police on the scene after cars were set alight by rioters in Hackney, north London, on 8 August 2011

    Conditions that led to 2011 riots still exist today, experts warn

    Data analysis finds large-scale cuts to youth services and increase in racial disparity 10 years on
  • David Lammy

    A decade after Tottenham burned, social alienation means riots could happen again

    David Lammy
    Tory governments have ignored recommendations on family support, youth unemployment and police relations, says David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham

May 2021

  • Mark Duggan.

    Mark Duggan’s family: police ‘lack courage’ to reopen investigation

    Forensic report claims IPCC’s version of events implausible, but Met police refuse to reinvestigate 2011 shooting

April 2020

  • Smoke billows from the Sony Centre warehouse in Enfield, north London August 9, 2011. British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would recall parliament from its summer recess for a day on Thursday after rioting swept through London for three consecutive nights. REUTERS/Chris Helgren (BRITAIN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS SOCIETY) London riots rioting

    Sony told to pay BBC £5m for stock damaged in London riots

    Warehouse held £40m of DVDs and CDs when it burnt down in August 2011

October 2019

  • Photo of Mark Duggan

    Mark Duggan shooting: family settle high court claim against Met

    Settlement is confidential at request of family whose case rested on ‘legality’ of shooting

February 2019

  • Kwaku Mills in Good Dog.

    Good Dog review – tapestry of Tottenham life on the eve of riots

    Kwaku Mills is a revelation as a boy growing up amid poverty in this touring revival of Arinzé Kene’s crackling, compelling monologue

January 2019

  • A London building burns during the 2011 riots.

    If the police step up stop-and-search tactics, trouble will follow

    John Drury
    Our research shows how the strategy contributed to the 2011 London riots, says John Drury, a professor of social psychology

April 2018

  • APRIL-2018_LONDON: Saturday interview: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dub poet . (Photograph by Graeme Robertson)

    Saturday interview
    Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘It was a myth that immigrants didn’t want to fit into British society. We weren’t allowed’

    As the Jamaican-born dub poet reflects on decades of race relations in the UK, from the Brixton riots to Windrush, he says young black men carry knives out of fear, and questions how much progress we have made since his time as a teenage Black Panther

August 2017

  • A burnt-out Carpetright shop

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: walking home through the London riots in 2011

    Chimene Suleyman
    Writer and poet Chimene Suleyman felt fear when a man came up to her with his face masked by a bandana. But he wanted to help her stay safe

July 2017

  • Police with a protester demanding justice after the death of Rashan Charles, London, July 2017

    Don’t call them riots. That dismisses the anger over Rashan Charles’s death

    Franklyn Addo
    The disturbances in north-east London are a reflection of longstanding frustration over police conduct, says youth worker Franklyn Addo

June 2017

  • Riot police near a burning building in Croydon, south London, during the riots in the UK capital in August 2011.

    Police would struggle to deal with repeat of 2011 riots, says senior officer

    West Midlands chief constable says he does not want blank cheque but, after cuts and terrorism, force is showing ‘red lights’

March 2017

  • Mark Duggan was shot dead by a police marksman in August 2011.

    Mark Duggan family lose appeal against inquest's lawful killing verdict

    Pamela Duggan had asked court to quash inquest jury’s decision after son was shot by a police marksman in 2011
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