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At the root of it all...

 
      Rainforests have been sacrificed this week in an attempt to analyse the riots in English cities.  One of the best efforts appears in the current edition of The Spectator  - fromHarriet Sargeant, who points the finger squarely at education – or lack of it – that has made a swathe of young men and women unemployable.
 
      Quoting figures on literacy released in the week before the riots Sargeant maintains that 

The rise of the feral rat

 
 
      We in Scotland have been a tad reticent this week in intruding on the private grief that has overtaken London and other major cities in England. Professor Tom Devine says we are a more conservative (with a small c) society, not given to civil unrest.  How can he be so sure? The best way to alleviate poverty has long been to heave a brick through a designer shop window, and if poverty is the cause of the rioting, then we have communities every bit as materially poor as Tottenham.