A Limerick

with help from Ultrafoetus, who contributed via Twitter

There once was a man called Dave Starkey

Who was scared we would all become darkies

He appeared on Newsnight

Started talking bare shite

And got paid for the shameful malarkey

If someone says "I'm not condoning their actions but I think I understand where this is coming from" and you hear that as "I condone their actions" then that is your intellectual failing. For you, stage-managed images of Boris with broom and calls for water cannons, the 'natural' economic pecking order and the primacy of property restored, and no lessons learned.

There's definitely a problem with the word 'excuses' isn't there - 'oh you're just making excuses for them'. Actually it's things like 'it's just the fault of the parents/the school holidays' etc that sound more like excuses (expedient justifications) as opposed to any deeper reflection on the causes/context.

20/20 Foresight

Baotou to Shanghai

Video for Kelvox1's Drugsbox by Matt Tompkins, who I last visited out in Shanghai in 2006.

Kelvox 1 - Drugsbox from GreatOne on Vimeo.

He explains a little about the video here