Ian Duncan Smith Riots

IDS's comments that X Factor and Premier League footballers wages were responsible for the behaviour of this summers rioters is not as daft as it appears. Where he is wrong though is crucial. Where teenagers living in poverty see no other ways out than the fickle hand of fate delivering a genetic predisposition to be able to sing or kick a ball he sees not a society depriving the poor of opportunity but cultural mistakes, not political ones. Rather  than blaming forces largely outside his control he ought to do what he can and work toward a society with an equal playing field.