t Anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment is driven by extremist networks but also by an increasingly xenophobic political discourse
Riot police officers push back anti-migration protesters outside the Holiday Inn Express Hotel which is housing asylum seekers on August 4, 2024 in Rotherham, United Kingdom. Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Imagesover the last week poses the first major test for the country’s new Labour government, just a month after it took power.
A strong response is certainly required. Inflamed by far-right propaganda, the riots represent a violent assault on the values of tolerance which have long been a characteristic of British civil society. There have, of course, been racial tensions and unrest before, but taken as a whole the UK has done a better job than many of its European peers of building a successful, ethnically diverse country.
Yet again there are questions to be asked too about the role of social media platforms, which appear impervious to regulation or restraint. The most egregious example is provided by X owner Elon Musk, who not only appears to have no interest in curbing incitement to hatred on his site, but has used his personal account to amplify far-right voices and predict an imminent civil war.
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