If there is any commonality between the bankers and the looters, it’s that they were both driven by little more than unabashed avarice.

I don’t know if you understand French but the French singer Francis Cabrel has a remarkable song called “Les Cardinaux en costume”, echoing what you say, in a different manner but speaking of the same people in pin stripe.

More riots are to be expected, I’m afraid, and not only in England.

Although I wholeheartedly agree that banks and big corporations have too much influence and can unrightfully dodge the tax code, this has NOTHING to do with the recent violence in the U.K. Now the arrests have started taking place, it seems a lot of the rioters are not politically motivated, but IPad/Footlocker/Flatscreen Sony motivated. Instead of protesting against capitalism or whatever the hell you and other media are trying to say, they just want their share of it through senseless, abysmal violence and looting. How is a young Malaysian student being beaten up and robbed a subliminal message against capitalism??Many of them are suburban kids that certainly did not grow up in poverty, but just loot and destroy for the fun of it. I am getting sick of people using the recent riots for furthering their own political ideas, whereas there is no ground to do this at all. In my humble opinion, a woman that had her store looted by these “protesters” worded it most correctly by calling them “feral rats”. Keep the tunes coming (Love them!) but think before you write something to apparently justify senseless mob violence that left vulnerable communities broken and people killed.