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ON THE FRONTLINE

As a former police officer with London’s Metropolitan Police, I would like to correct the statement made in your January 2020 issue, which declared that the Poll Tax riot of 31 March 1990 was “the worst riot the City had seen in a century” (Snapshots, Trouble on the Streets).

On 6 October 1985,

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