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