Poverty, crime and institutional racism
Robin Sivapalan examines the educational and social background to gangster and gun culture and starts a discussion on how institutional racism still poisons British society. Four young black men were shot dead this month in South London, sparking a new debate on gun crime. A just published UNICEF report ranked the UK last of the world’s 21 richest nations in terms of the material, subjective and educational well being of its children. The two events are connected. Tory leader proclaimed his recipe for a better society and less juvenile crime: stronger family units. Cameron’s and our society is...