The Queen usually spends weekends at Windsor Castle and no decision has yet been made over whether she will change her plans.
I live about five miles away from Windsor, so if Her Majesty's corgis went up in smoke, I’d get a glimpse of the funeral pyre from my study window. Which is why I wondered what had happened to those "riots" that were splashed across the newspapers? I’ve long been aware of tensions in nearby Slough, but Windsor seemed an unlikely candidate.
Not surprisingly, some commentators and bloggers interpreted the events as another stage in Britain’s descent into multicultural chaos. This report in Spiked presents a very different picture:
On my way to the Medina Dairy, I walked through quiet suburban areas where neighbours greeted each other while mowing their lawns, and signs by a construction site allured house hunters with pictures of luxury penthouse flats. The parks were bustling with young boys playing football and parents watching their kids on swings and jungle jims. This did not look like a town recovering from a week of race riots.
As for the figures for arrests, the article reports that there’ve been six, "with only two people charged; one with racial abuse, the other with carrying an offensive weapon". The local weekly paper’s website doesn’t have any updates, as far as I can see. I’ll check again later.