Slowly catching up

I was away for a while, and before and after was too busy at work to spend any time blogging. Since returning, however, I have been slowly trawling through my inbox, links, Twitter and so on, and reading up about the riots, about the far right in the UK, about Gilad Atzmon, and various other things. I am about to post one long post I have been slowly assembling all week about the riots, and then I will schedule two more posts, one on right-wing extremism and one on everything else, to go live on Saturday and Sunday. I normally try and spread out long posts, but I've got a backlog to get through. Please tuck in in the comment boxes, and avoid abusive language or boring screeds about Zionism.