Hackney burning

Living in Cameron land is not too threatening at least right now. My boys are in France for the summer, but they live a few hundred yards from the Hackney riots. Thirty years ago I lived there myself. My nephew now lives in a flat almost directly above the riots.

A young man of 22, he seems to have no connection to the young people who are looting and fire bombing. He felt both frightened and excited.

We may see him on Thursday. What else will have happened by then? What else does a 22 year old man think about this stuff?

Watch this space.