Protest in Stoke-on-Trent. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

‘We are all immigrants from somewhere.’

Burnt offering: Tony D’Souza responds to recent rioting across the UK

‘We are all immigrants from somewhere.’

by Tony D’Souza 30th August 2024

You, who are reading this, will probably be as disgusted as I am by the scenes of wanton violence unleashed upon our streets by the recent anti-immigrant riots. They hung like a heavy cloud on our shoulders, just like the palls of smoke that hung over the riot-torn streets of Southport, Rochdale, Middlesbrough and a host of other towns. The riots came as a great shock. But, with the benefit of hindsight, we should have seen it coming. 

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