WHAT MAKES violence and lawlessness suddenly erupt across a nation?
One upset church minister in Liverpool tweeted “What we are seeing is EVIL”. Who can disagree, when people turn feral, and smash, loot and burn?
But what does “evil” mean?
First, social evil. As one London-based youth worker said: “To pretend has nothing ...
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CCTV footage from the riots in London last year captured their shocking nature vividly.
A dazed young man, profusely bleeding from his face, is helped to his feet by another man. Others stand around. Are they concerned?
They are - they are concerned to gain any valuables that they can from this ...
YOUNG LOOTERS and rioters at night, followed next morning by an army of men and women of all ages with brooms sweeping up the mess. This is what we saw on our streets in August.
Some people ask “What are young people coming to?” But here are some young people brightening ...
ALEX NEWSON, 20, talks about the day his mate, David, found him as good as dead.
“I woke up with a bit of a headache and felt queasy. But I should have been dead.” Alex had taken 20 paracetamol and 40 antihistamines in an attempt to end his life.
Amazingly, no treatment ...
AT THE AGE of 19, Anna Purkiss developed M.E. This is an extremely debilitating illness involving the immune and nervous systems.
Anna says “Even things like reading or talking to people wore me out, let alone any physical activity. The pain was a major problem for me: it was like how ...
HAYLEY WOODS was afraid to go out of the house. Now she's more outgoing than most.
“Pretty messy" is how Hayley, now 26, describes her childhood.
Her parents divorced when she was 7, and she witnessed her dad repeatedly abusing her mum. As if that wasn't enough for a seven year old ...
A JESUS Army house in Coventry have been getting experimental in bringing life to the people they meet.
They gave out free bottles of mineral water to runners at a local fun run. One came back, after he'd finished, to tell them that he was really refreshed by their generosity and ...
“WHEN THE guys started getting crushed up against a huge tent pole, we had to call off that bit of the plan!” says Andy Lantsbery, 24, a leader at “RAW (Real and Wild)”, the Jesus Army’s annual youth event. The lively men-only workshop took place as part of the event ...
LOADED with cookies, hot chocolate and free magazines, young people from the Jesus Army set up a stall at the SOAS (School of African and Oriental Studies) University in London recently.
They received a great deal of positive interest and made friends with the Christian Union. One young man came to ...
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