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This is the Paul Lewis retraction that appeared in the Guardian: 9.41pm:

"Paul Lewis has sent in an update from Enfield:

I think it is important to dampen down some of the speculation circulating about our reports and tweets on vigilantes in Enfield.

It is always a tough balance to get the tone right, and it is important to stress, again, there is no evidence of racial disturbance here.

My colleague Mustafa Khalili and I reported what we saw and it was an incident that left us both shaken. We described it as a minor skirmish.

That's what it is was. It seemed pertinent to mention what some of the men were saying, as it seemed different to anything we've seen in the last four days, but some
seem to be taking that out of context. There were no racist chants."

Cheers for that. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it though. "What we said is what we saw. It happened. We'll call it a minor skirmish."