The New Statesman’s rolling politics blog   One year after the
2011 England Riots, what do we know?  The Equality Trust
presents their digest of the causes of the riots.  Broom rat.
Photograph by Infrogmation/CC-BY-SA Broom rat. Photograph by
Infrogmation/CC-BY-SA  Children and parents, personal
resilience, hopes and dreams, the brands, the usual suspects,
police and the public, community engagment, involvement and
cohesion. What do these have in common? They were identified as
key themes to address in the wake of the 2011 England Riots.
The Government-commissioned Riots, Communities and Victims Panel
put the themes together. The Equality Trust’s Research Digest
5 (pdf), out today, reflects on the themes and summarises
academic research on the relationship between the themes and
income inequality:  • Children and parents: British
epidemiologists Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson have explored
the link between income inequality and the UNICEF index of child
well-being. What they found is that where inequalit