The media is full of reports about US successes in stabilising Iraq. But behind the headlines lies a country on the verge of chaos, writes Simon Assaf.

Yuri Prassad, Simon Assaf and Simon Basketter warn that continuing police discrimination against black youths, as displayed recently at Notting Hill Carnival, is liable to have explosive consequences further down the line.

“A flood of Romanian gypsy children has left a British town facing financial crisis,” screamed the Daily Mail last week. “Roma children flood into Slough,” said the BBC.

The population of British-occupied southern Iraqi have good reason to be angry.