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Welfare state led to the riots in England?

by spottiness on 8/15/11, 9:10 PM with 3 comments

• by zeemonkee on 8/15/11, 9:33 PM

  Why does anyone bother listening to this pontificating, clueless idiot any more ? Because he helped crash a crappy hilariously-named CMS product into the ground over a decade ago ?

  I mean, I wouldn't write a blog post about the American Tea Party, for example, because I know too little of the forces of modern US politics, culture and economics giving rise to the phenomenon and would come off as a clueless idiot if I tried to do so. What makes Greenspun such an expert on the UK ?

• by arkitaip on 8/15/11, 9:12 PM

  This is a pretty awful, short article with idle speculation. Why are you posting this on HN?