A decade after the riots, so little has been learned

Keith Flett on enduring anger at a system that delivers for the few, Prof Joe Sim on punitive retribution, and Andy Stelman on lessons unlearned

On 4 August it will be 10 years since police shot dead Mark Duggan in Tottenham Hale (Conditions that led to 2011 riots still exist today, experts warn, 30 July). It is true that things have changed since the shooting and the events that followed it. Tottenham became a centre for craft beer and London's only urban cheesemaker. New multi-storey flats surround my central Tottenham abode, very few affordable for existing inhabitants.

But none of that, as David Lammy argues (A decade after Tottenham burned, social alienation means riots could happen again, 30 July), is of much use to those - far too many - who have to rely on food banks to get by and whose future job opportunities look difficult at best.