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The worst rioting in decades will cost the country more than money

BY AUGUST 11th, a shell-shocked London was picking up the pieces, as were Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and many other English cities. The apocalyptic images that had dominated the news for four nights—of outmanoeuvred police in heavy riot gear pitted against mocking, mobile and mostly young gangs of violent looters—had given way to more purposeful policing and prime ministerial promises of law and order. Firebombed police stations, burning city centres and gaping shopfronts were yielding to broom-wielding community clean-ups.