The Great Riot of London: The Stakes for David Cameron - TIME

The Great Riot of London: The Stakes for David Cameron - TIME: "Throughout Monday night and the early hours of Tuesday morning the answer to that question appeared to be 'the mob.' It certainly was not the police, politicians or local community leaders, all of whom were overwhelmed by the unprecedented scale of the violence and the speed with which it escalated and spread, first, from one London borough to another and then, perhaps inevitably, to other cities including Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol."

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