Good morning. As autumn arrives here in the UK, the nine days of rage and violence that erupted on the streets of more than 20 cities in late July and early August seem a long time ago. But the sentencing of the more than 1,200 participants in the summer riots goes on, and politicians are continuing to wrestle with their causes.
Guardian reporters have been speaking to victims, crunching the numbers and reporting from the courts, to try to understand more about what happened in those chaotic days – and why.
