Dalyrmple on English Riots

Theodore Dalyrmple, of whom I have written recently, is here again, this time direct at City Journal:

Theodore Dalrymple
British Degeneracy on Parade
The riots should surprise no one who’s been paying attention.

The ferocious criminality exhibited by an uncomfortably large section of the English population during the current riots has not surprised me in the least. I have been writing about it, in its slightly less acute manifestations, for the past 20 years. To have spotted it required no great perspicacity on my part; rather, it took a peculiar cowardly blindness, one regularly displayed by the British intelligentsia and political class, not to see it and not to realize its significance. There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

More at the link:
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0810td.html

An Up-close look at England's Lumpenproletariat

For a close-up look at contemporary England, may I recommend Theodore Dalrymple. I admit I was deeply disappointed in The New Vichy Syndrome, but other titles, Life at the Bottom, for example, will enlighten the reader greatly, even those living in England today. The link here takes you to Dalrymple's list.

http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Dalrymple/e/B001HOAFBW/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Some reviews of Life at the Bottom here:

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Bottom-Worldview-Makes-Underclass/dp/1566635055/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

I think I've read five Dalrymple books so far. I liked four of them especially. That might account for my choice to move to Peru.