There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored | Nina Power | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/08/context-london-riots

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett point out in The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, phenomena usually described as "social problems" (crime, ill-health, imprisonment rates, mental illness) are far more common in unequal societies than ones with better economic distribution and less gap between the richest and the poorest.

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