The panel's call for evidence comes the day after the Ministry of Justice published the most comprehensive data yet on the disturbances.

BBC: England riots victims' panel calls for evidence

Although the most recent data have yet to be published, they're expected to reveal that the vast majority of remembered "facts" are now make-believe.

WSJ: Jonah Lehrer on Memory, Witnesses and Crime | Head Case

As they report in a paper published recently in arXiv, an online archive, they found, yet again, that the data follow power laws.

ECONOMIST: Modelling conflict