‘Legitimate Concerns’ and Root Causes: Have Lessons Been Learned From Last Summer's Riots?

James Bloodworth reports

By last September, more than 1,300 people had been arrested in connection with the riots.

A man who had set fire to an asylum seeker hotel in Rotherham received a nine-year prison sentence. The oldest person to be sentenced was an 81-year-old man from Nottingham; the youngest a 12-year-old boy.

Right-wing content mills thrummed with outlandish claims of political persecution.

Elon Musk branded the UK a “tyrannical police state” and shared a fake news headline claiming that the Prime Minister planned to set up “detainment camps” on the Falkland Islands. In a further outburst, Musk called for Starmer himself to be sent to prison.

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