DAVID WHYTE opens his edited collection, How Corrupt is Britain?, by arguing that “the idea that British institutions are fair and democratic is one of the foundation stones of our self-imagined national heritage”.

I wish to thank the Irish Examiner and Jim Roche for their excellent history pullout which appeared in the Irish Examiner on August 23rd last.

I am in agreement with Donal Kennedy’s letter of June 26 — "Ireland should not honour warmongers", as I believe this to be very true of the First World War celebrations. All of the most advanced and progressive thinkers internationally opposed the First World War bitterly.

I would like to support the report of the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council (June 14) who found Ireland in breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights "by colluding in the arbitrary incarceration of women and girls in mother and baby homes" and also "by denying Irish people trafficked to the US a right to their nationality".

It is strange that so much publicity has been given to An Post’s mistake in issuing a stamp with the wrong image of Capt. Jack White, one of the founders of the Citizen Army.

Tottenham have confirmed that their game against Crystal Palace will go ahead on Saturday despite a clash with a planned vigil for Mark Duggan.

Britain’s prime minister has appealed for a calm response to the inquest verdict that a man was lawfully killed by a police marksman despite being unarmed.

There have been angry scenes outside a London court after an inquest jury concluded that Mark Duggan was lawfully killed by police.

A jury retired to consider its verdict today in the retrial of a man accused of giving a gun to Mark Duggan, whose shooting led to the Tottenham riots in the UK.

Mark Duggan, whose shooting by police sparked last summer’s riots, was trying to set up a drugs deal in the weeks before he was killed, a court heard today.

A year ago England was engulfed by riots but the UK government has done nothing to tackle the issues that sparked them, writes Siôn Simon

The Metropolitan Police has apologised to the family of Mark Duggan, whose shooting triggered last summer’s riots in the UK, for failing to inform them of his death.

A teenager has become the first person charged by Scotland Yard with the offence of rioting over last summer’s disorder in Britain.

A truck driver who lost his job after pulling in on a motorway to take a call from The Gerry Ryan Show has apologised to his former employers for any “problems” he caused them.

The riots that spread across English cities this summer might have been avoided if police had “appreciated the magnitude of the task”, the head of a Commons committee said today.

Poverty has been given as the main reason for this summer's riots across England.

Lack of confidence in the police response to the initial riots in London led to further disturbances across the country, an independent report has found.

An investigation into the death of Mark Duggan who was shot dead by police, triggering a series of riots across Britain, has found no forensic evidence that he was carrying a gun, it was reported today.

Mourners turned out today to bid a final farewell to the police shooting victim whose death sparked the first night of devastating riots across England.

WHO ever said nothing ever happens in August? The riots in Britain have caused bewilderment and outrage in equal measure. The image of London has been severely damaged. But before the media turns to its next big thing, there are a few points worth bearing in mind about what we have seen on our TV screens.

British Prime Minister David Cameron visited riot-hit Tottenham today to talk to people affected by the disturbances which sparked violence around Britain.

A HUMAN river of anarchy flowed through London. It swelled from a blood-stained taxi in Tottenham and surged into a torrent which tore through the inner city, burst into affluent outer suburbs and briefly threatened to smash across the West End.

In one sense, the London riots defy explanation. All mob violence does.

Britain's police watchdog has admitted it may have wrongly led journalists to believe that police shooting victim Mark Duggan fired at officers before he was killed.

The death toll from the violent disorder that swept across England rose today after a man attacked by rioters as he attempted to stamp out a fire in west London died in hospital.

BLAZING violence that stunned London for three days spread to urban centres across England despite the enormous police crackdown restoring a sense of order to the country’s capital.

The man shot by police — sparking the riots which have hit England — died of a single gunshot wound to the chest, an inquest heard.

RIOTING and looting spread to Manchester and the midlands from London last night, with plans to prevent a fourth night of violence on the streets of the capital appearing to have worked.

Rioting and looting spread to Manchester and the Midlands from London tonight with plans to prevent a fourth night of violence on the streets of the English capital appearing to have worked.

Much of London shut down early today as 16,000 police officers took to the streets ahead of a feared fourth night of rioting, looting and arson.

The man shot by police – sparking the riots which have hit London for several nights – died of a single gunshot wound to the chest, an inquest heard today.

The results of ballistic tests carried out following the police shooting of Mark Duggan are expected to be published today.

BRITISH police have apologised to the family of Mark Duggan for the “distress” caused to them in the wake of his death, and offered to meet with them.

RIOTERS were rampaging across Britain’s capital again last night as politicians and police chiefs tried desperately to curb the “sheer criminality”.

Rioters were rampaging across Britain’s capital again tonight as politicians and police chiefs tried desperately to curb the “sheer criminality”.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has voiced his concern at the damage caused to the club’s ticket office and the rest of the area by rioters this weekend.

More than 100 people have been arrested after bouts of rioting and looting broke out across London overnight.

THE riot that tore through parts of north London’s deprived Tottenham neighbourhood has cast a pall over Britain’s capital, echoing an earlier era of racial unrest, while spreading malaise through a city preparing to host the Olympic Games.

The family of a man shot dead by police say they “are not condoning” the riots and looting that rocked their local area last night.

Scotland Yard has confirmed that 26 police officers were injured in last night's riots in Tottenham in north London, and that 42 people were arrested for offences including violent disorder, burglary and theft.

Up to 26 British police officers were being treated in hospital today following riots which broke out in north London two days after a man was shot dead by police.

Shamrock Rovers will have to plan without Stephen Bradley as they entertain Drogheda United at Tallaght Stadium tonight.

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