i'm joined by francis gilbert teacher and author he's written a book called the nation and is a frequent commentator on youth culture francis thanks for speaking to r.t. so what was your reaction to the riots and were you surprised i suppose i was shocked when i you know heard of them happening particularly near where i live but i was not surprised because i mean i think a lot of commentators have said that this sort of thing. has been waiting to happen for a number of years now why is that. i think it's complicated i mean i suppose you could isolate a few factors firstly we have had a kind of run of disaffected socially disadvantaged. young people in our urban areas for. maybe a couple of decades and they have become more more organized that become. divisions in society go. and they become less fright of the consequences of misbehavior because actually they've been getting away with this sort of behavior for many many years so i think what we're seeing is a sort of new york culture. the kind of explosion of trauma on the streets in the your crucially in my book i define as a theatrical