The Best Explainers For Understanding The U.K. Riots

For those who don’t keep up with politics in the U.K., the riots in London seemed to come out of nowhere. Suddenly images of young people setting cop cars on fire and dashing away with stolen electronics splashed across the papers. But of course, riots–and violence–are rarely random. That’s why explainers have been popping up all over the Internet in an attempt to parse the cultural, political and societal issues at play behind the riots.