Oliver’s Army

“lower-class unemployed white people had lived for years in appalling slums without a breakdown of public order on anything like the present scale”. Oliver Letwin writing to Margaret Thatcher blocking aid to black communities in 1985 after the Broadwater Farm and Tottenham riots. “A riot is the language of the unheard” Martin Luther King. Perhaps…

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Dublin City FM 103.2

Another Xmas New Year’s and I’m on the radio. 7-9am Tune In http://tunein.com/radio/1032-Dublin-City-FM-s9123/