This is the main part of my letter to my MP about the riots and the political response. There have been some amazing blog posts written about these incident (see lower down) and I wish I had the style and intelligence they show but in the mean time, I can offer this:

This is not a blog post I had planned to write - especially in the middle of an election, but blogging, for me, is meant to be about things you find interesting as you find them interesting. Nor is this a blog post which will answer the questions it poses - I don't think there are answers to some of the questions.

This morning a couple of ReTweets came up in my twitter stream from @glynmoody.

RT @alexanderhanff preparing a criminal complaint against Canonical over privacy concerns raised by logging/publishing of online chatrooms