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August riots: a coat of varnish | Editorial

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Friday, 10 August 2012 (on August 10, 2012)
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As lawlessness is replaced by sport, last year's rioting seems like just a bad dream yet the failure of politics has not gone away

There is a scene in A Coat of Varnish, the ponderous last novel by..


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