Bloody hell. Will Fly. At last someone has said something sensible. No, there's no excuse for rioting or looting, and I've got a hell of a lot of sympathy for the small traders whose businesses were wrecked and for the people whose communities were wrecked, and for the families of the people who died defending their property.

But if the stuffed shirts who've spent the last few days calling for water cannon, baton rounds, eviction notices, benefits withdrawal, more police, more riot gear, tougher sentences and God alone knows what else, had been born into dysfunctional families on sink estates with no jobs, no hope and no prospects, would they have made better citizens than the kids who've been out rioting? I scarcely think so.

And if those stuffed shirts had been brought up faced with celebrity culture, overpaid bankers and company directors, dishonest MPs, and shops crammed with goods they would never be able to pay for, would they have reacted any differently to the way the disaffected youths of London, Manchester etc reacted between Saturday and Tuesday nights?

If you seriously want to solve the problem of rioting, you first have to solve the problems of inequality and scrapheap alienation.