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Letters: How decayed communities fell to looting

There has been much focus on the performance of the police during the London riots. But the police are social dustmen. They deal with the results of social problems; they are not a solution.

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What a good idea the Localism Bill sounded (Letters, 28 July). An end to centrally imposed housing quotas; the empowering of communities to plan for their own futures. But the more detail has emerged, the more the underlying agenda has become plain for all to see: a cynical and sleazy betrayal of our countryside, which must be sacrificed on the altar of short-term economic growth, irrespective of the environmental and social consequences.

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Sunday, 7 August 2011

I read A C Grayling's advocacy for a global gun ban in the mid-day heat at a petrol station less than 100 miles from the South Sudan border and a few miles from home ("What would this man be without a gun?", 31 July).

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Wednesday, 3 August 2011

The horror at the inclusion of representatives of the drinks industry on the Government's working group on alcohol (leading article, 1 August), illustrates two assumptions, one undesirable and the other questionable.

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Tuesday, 2 August 2011

You report that some British military units are likely to be required to serve tours in Afghanistan of 12 months rather than six (1 August).

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Monday, 1 August 2011

Reform would take some of the strain out of applying for university.

IoS letters, emails & online postings (31 July 2011)

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Donating to crisis appeals such as your Give a Day's Pay appeal for Somalia is extremely important, and saves lives.

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Columnist Comments

christina_patterson

Christina Patterson: We can't deny that race plays a part

Too many black men have been killed by the police. This is not the cause of these riots, but it's in the mix

mary_dejevsky

Mary Dejevsky: Slow down – and get things done

France's measured purpose married to local ambition that plans on a modest scale is something we could learn from


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