Britain is a country where old men no longer recognise the country and the London they once knew when they were young men

As a teenager living in London in the 1960's I would have been familiar with these street scenes as seen on Flickr :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wasleso/sets/72157600522533831/show

As an old man living outside London, 50 years later in 2011 these are the street scenes of a London I no longer recognise as seen on the BBC :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14460554

What has happened in the intervening years ? :

* christian values, reinforced by the Church and Education, which once underpinned British Society have almost disappeared.

* respect for the authority of teachers and police is now absent from the mothers and fathers of the adolescents who are out on the streets.

* the consumer society has triumphed.

* tweeting technology has provided communication and coordination of criminality.

Result : a blaze of fire and looting by feral youths.

What a sad country Britain has become.

The Gaurdian newspaper :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/09/london-riots-kids-parents-police