Tony Blair makes a rather thoughtful contribution in today’s Observer to the debate about the riots that began two weekends ago in Tottenham in north London. Those who suspected his populist instincts would lead him to endorse the response of the law-and-order right to the disorder (that it was a matter of “sheer criminality”) will, I suspect, be surprised. “We are in danger,” he writes, “of the wrong analysis leading to the wrong diagnosis, leading to the wrong prescription.”
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