Ealing

I have been struggling to collect my thoughts about the riots in the UK this past week largely because they have affected the areas in which I grew up in London. Watching your home town being burnt and looted is not much fun, and although I am thousands of miles away in Los ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 11, 2011

Chez Pazienza on the complex motivations behind the riots in the UK: You'd have to be blind or willfully ignorant not to grasp that when you create a staggering disparity between a large underclass and a small upper-class -- with only a dwindling middle-class in between to ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Aug 10, 2011