The New Dark Age

Thursday, 19 September 2024 — The Institute of Race Relations

In this week’s Calendar of Racism and Resistance, we note the aftermath of August’s riots and the arrests and sentencing of the far-right agitators. The Commons Library report ‘Policing responses to the Summer 2024 riots’, which terms them ‘anti-immigration’, but fails to call them out as racist, shows that since 30 August, 1,280 people have been arrested, with 796 people charged. The longest sentence of 9 years, has gone to a 27-year-old who added fuel to a bin fire outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, Rotherham, housing hundreds of asylum seekers. The council leader is now asking the government not to renew the contract for asylum-seeker housing at the Holiday Inn because of the concerns of the wider residents of Manvers. Thus, the extremists set the limits on humanitarianism.

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