Is This Lawless Britain?
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This morning the discussion with Mark Dolan started as Clapham descended into disorder. Online-organised youth gatherings saw retail staff and police assaulted, prompting urgent concerns over public safety. Fuel prices are climbing sharply, with Middle East tensions and oil market fears threatening further pain for already stretched UK motorists. Across the pond President Donald Trump’s remarks about Sir Keir Starmer have added diplomatic intrigue, fuelling debate over Britain’s military stance and international influence. Meanwhile back in The UK The Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is reportedly weighing North Sea gas approval, as energy security demands increasingly test the government’s climate commitments.
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| 0:00.0 | The Home of Common Sense. This is Talk. Live in the studio is the former executive editor of the |
| 0:08.6 | News of the World, a titan of Fleet Street, Neil Wallace. Good morning, Neil. Good morning, Mark. |
| 0:14.7 | Lawless Britain, this is not just crime, this is M&S crime. The boss of Britain's most premium |
| 0:20.5 | retailer is right to speak out? |
| 0:23.5 | And a sign of his desperation, really. |
| 0:27.0 | I mean, it's very unusual that the boss of a company like M&S would actually go on the attack like this, |
| 0:34.3 | because this is basically an unalloyed attack on Sadiq Khan on this government |
| 0:40.3 | and they're driven to this by desperation. |
| 0:44.3 | This is not the first time you and I have talked about the impact of rioting, of shoplifting in particular. |
| 0:53.3 | But you know one of the things, that amazing footage you showed |
| 0:56.4 | there a minute ago, and it is footage that everybody should take a look at. If you haven't seen it, |
| 1:02.9 | get on YouTube, take a look at it. What the thing really stuck in my mind is the size of this. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. This isn't, you know, somebody going and trying to nick a few things and stick it up their jumper. |
| 1:16.6 | This is planned, this is a day out, this is fun. |
| 1:21.6 | They are enjoying this. Look at the expression on these kids' faces. |
| 1:25.6 | This is called something like a link-up or something like that. |
| 1:28.3 | That's exactly right. And it's very well organised. They have WhatsApp groups. They're on |
| 1:31.9 | Snapchat. There's definitely an organised element. Let's meet in Clapham High Street, |
| 1:37.6 | 11 o'clock, as many people as possible, and we will charge. And that gentleman leaving the voice note there, |
| 1:45.8 | he was absolutely spot on. And there is a major element, this, the guest I think before him was |
| 1:52.9 | too. The problem is that the crime of riot is far more serious in terms of sentencing than shoplifting or minor violence, |
| 2:05.3 | which, you know, they're mobbing here. |
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