„There were roughly 500 homicides in Britain last year, many of them shocking. But if the victim isn’t white, or the crime doesn’t fit a narrative that will demonize immigrants, it is not seized on to stoke angry protests.“
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
@nytimes.com has taken note of “right-wing” rage in the UK. Could it be that these “right-wingers” learned something from USA’s left-wing hero George Floyd? The Times doesn’t even mention the George Floyd riots.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
In the U.K., a Violent Cycle: Hateful Attacks, Right-Wing Agitation and Riots
Two stabbings have fueled violent protests in England and Northern Ireland in the last 10 days, fanned online by right-wing voices. In Britain and across Europe, it’s a grim pattern.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
In their brilliant 1978 book Policing the Crisis, Stuart Hall et al showed how Britain had lurched to the 'authoritarian populist' right--to disastrous effect--through 'moral panics' around race. And that was before 'social media' could accelerate the downward spiral: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
There were roughly 500 homicides in Britain last year, many of them shocking. But if the victim isn’t white, or the crime doesn’t fit a narrative that will demonize immigrants, it is not seized on to stoke angry protests.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
