Possibly the best analysis of the riots I’ve read
“To put the violence directed at British Muslims, Black Britons and asylum seekers down to “legitimate grievances” is to fall for one of the most toxic and intentionally divisive falsehoods in the populist handbook: the myth that class and race are diametrically opposed…”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/10/there-can-be-no-excuses-the-uk-riots-were-violent-racism-fomented-by-populism
#UKPolitics #UKriots
Culture wars have poisoned political debate, normalised Islamophobia and opened wounds that a generation blighted by nativism hoped had closed
David Olusoga (The Guardian)
