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Politics Unpacked

The Riots of 2011

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley reflects on the riots of 2011 with Shadow Justice Secretary and MP for Tottenham David Lammy, Stephen Reicher and Frances Crook.


PLUS columnists Melanie Reid and James Forsyth discuss whether life really changes after Covid-19.



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1:01.5

slash change. Hello, I'm Matt Shawley. This is the Red Box podcast. Well, we've got to the end

1:06.8

of another week, so that's something I suppose, in the depths of August. I hope that you're

1:12.6

managing to get away. Maybe you're listening to the podcast when you're on your holidays. Let me know,

1:16.2

you can email me Matt. Shawley at times.com. Similarly, if you want to come on the video and play

1:21.5

the quiz are hugely popular quiz, can you get to number 10? It's very straightforward. There are 10

1:26.4

general knowledge questions loosely connected to 10 cabinet jobs. The more questions you get right,

1:31.2

the better the job you get and you can take your place alongside our listeners and guests.

1:35.0

And if you get all 10 right, you'd end up as our shows prime minister and who doesn't want to do

1:39.1

that job. So email me Matt. Shawley at times.com. We can get you on the radio very soon. But enough

1:45.8

on that nonsense. Coming up on today's podcast. We mark 10 years since the, well, I was going to say

1:53.3

London right. They began his rights in London following the shooting by the police of Mark Duggan.

1:58.9

But they spread across the country too. It was a very weird time as fueled partly by

2:04.9

social unrest, social media. It was the school holidays. The weather was quite warm. It was a very

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