stoking the croft

This may seem radical, but surely Avon & Somerset Police chief Colin Port's visit should have been made before? It's easy to visit and say things after events like these. If you genuinely want to engage with a local community, then you do that all the time, not just in the aftermath of flashpoints.

Whether Tesco is any worse than other supermarket giants, I'm unsure about. All seem to forget ethics and common standards of decency when they source goods from poorer countries. I have seen this at firsthand.

In a SE London area I know, smaller retail businesses are doing well despite being a few metres away from one of the biggest tesco stores in the capital. Maybe consumer behaviour patterns are different to those of stokes croft. Crime is high in that area where rich and poor are polarised, but so far, rioting has not been a feature....