I Predict A Riot!

According to news reports, Robin Hood is not just a place name. Robin Hood is alive and well and fighting for something or other.
Why?
Take a look at this (poorly photographed) scene outside Belle Isle School in Leeds today. There has been a heavy police presence since yesterday, when ugly behaviour led to a riot.

The new generation must believe that something is up; when something is intolerable, you might go mad.

But when something will not be tolerated, you get a riot.

The kids seemed friendly enough to me. But Belle Isle is and always has been a tough area. You see youngsters full of muscles standing on corners or at the gates to the houses, and you have to wonder what makes the non-jobbers think that they can confuse and rule these people.

According to the news reports, they can't.

Some people will probably talk about 'lack of discipline', but the sort of discipline required to tolerate year upon year of compulsion and confinement, while one's life ebbs away to grayness, is not discipline at all, but complete prostration.

My guess is that some of the slaves rebelled because they saw and understood too much.

Let's hope that whatever Spartacus kicked it off doesn't get crucified.