This essay, on the roots of the summer riots in England, was published in the Observer on 11 August 2024 under the headline “The roots of the UK’s unrest lie in the warping of genuine working-class grievances”. “The British soul is awakening and stirring with rage at what these people are doing,” the Spectator’s Douglas Murray told former Australian deputy prime minister John Anderson. The comment might sound like a response to the recent riots, but was actually recorded last year (the edited […]

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