THE WOMEN WHO RIOTED
The dominant images of the August riots were of angry men, but the interviews by “Reading the Riots” (a partnership which include the Guardian newspaper and the London School of Economics) suggest females were a significant presence… On the third night of riots, two 20-year-old women made their way from Brixton to Peckham, egged on by friends and pings on their BlackBerrys. Once there, they saw an abandoned police car. Within minutes a petrol bomb was sailing through its window. “One of my friends … just said: ‘Let’s fuck it up,’ because there was no one there, there was nothing...