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Riots Report: The Forgotten Families

The Wowster on last years riots and the forgotten families, Amid all the censure and tough sentencing following last years riots, the main casualty was an analysis of the causes. Now that has been put right to a large extent by a riots report that has shone a spotlight on the UK's 500,000 "forgotten families." The Riots Communities and Victims Panel has blamed ...

Trayvon Martin: Battle for Truth

The Wowster reports on the killing of Trayvon Martin and an anonymous witness An anonymous witness has stepped forward into the national cauldron of protest over the killing of Trayvon Martin. The witness, known as John, told police he saw 17-year-old Martin ...

Battle Of The Binge Drinking

The Wowster on minimum price strategy to stop binge drinking. At long last the UK government is proposing a minimum price of 40p per unit of alcohol to "turn the tide" against binge drinking in England and Wales. The aim is to ...

Made in France

The Wowster on the dramatic end of a terrorist made in France He was born in France, you could say made in France, growing up as he did in one of the worst and most disenfranchised estates in the country. Today the ...

Living In Darkness

The Wowster on living  in darkness of Nazi occupation When I was about nine years old I came across The Scourge of the Swastika, Lord Liverpool's damning indictment of Nazi atrocities. It stayed with me for years. I became obsessed with anything ...

Bum Note on the Mafia

The Wowster on the bum note that glorifies the Mafia In Naples, the mafia known there as the Camorra is everywhere. Now they are on a video which seems to glorify them. The song hits a bum note as it tells of ...

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