In his column in today’s Times, David Aaronovitch offers an analysis of the recent ‘riots’ arrived at by asking the basic questions of who, what, where, when & why – leading to the conclusion that it was all just down to a relatively small number of young men high on violence & low on personal skills.
He left out the ‘how’, which has been bothering me. In particular how was it, apparently, so easy for them to gain entry through all those steel grills & shutters?
My guess is that the vandals had the huge advantage of not having to worry about avoiding attention by keeping quiet about it.
