18 JULY 1981, page 4

Notebook

I f I do not go on holiday immediately, I fear I will shortly have my own 'copycat riot'. The temptation to riot comes over me in surges. It might be irresistible if I had to......

Portrait Of The Week

After the riots in Southall and Toxteth, Liverpool, last week, rioting spread to Wood Green, North London, Moss Side, Manchester (where a thousand youths attacked the police......