"\"London's Burning\" was a political and media epithet relating to the inner London's near social anarchy from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s. It is not related in any way whatsoever to the UK's 1990s TV show about London's firefighters. Left wingers, ethnic minorities, squatters, gays, hippies, druggies, punks, the TUC, anti-Vietnam War protests, bent cops, crooks, communist agitators, bizzar \"Loony Left\" councilors, dictatorial Conservative councilors and Neo-nazi rioters all got involved in the crisis at various times."@en . . "\"London's Burning\" (the political epithet, not the UK TV show)"@en . . . . "\"London's Burning\" was a political and media epithet relating to the inner London's near social anarchy from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s. It is not related in any way whatsoever to the UK's 1990s TV show about London's firefighters. Left wingers, ethnic minorities, squatters, gays, hippies, druggies, punks, the TUC, anti-Vietnam War protests, bent cops, crooks, communist agitators, bizzar \"Loony Left\" councilors, dictatorial Conservative councilors and Neo-nazi rioters all got involved in the crisis at various times."@en . . . . .