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              UK riots

              • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
                Elon Musk
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                Tech billionaire claims PM failed to tackle grooming scandal when he was head of prosecution service

                Elon Musk
              • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
                UK society
                UK teenager accused of Southport stabbings charged with terrorism offence

                Al-Qaeda manual and deadly poison ricin allegedly found at Axel Rudakubana’s home

                Merseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy providing an update into the investigation into the murders of six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar, and the attempted murders of eight children and two adults in Southport
              • Friday, 6 September, 2024
                Nine-year jail term for man involved in asylum hotel fire during UK riots

                Sentence is one of the longest in connection with far-right violence over the summer

                Thomas Birley holding a police baton during the riot in Rotherham
              • Monday, 19 August, 2024
                UK to hold offenders in police cells amid justice system ‘crisis’

                Operation Early Dawn activated following violent unrest across country in recent weeks

                Police on horses patrol as anti-racism counter-protesters gather in Preston, UK
              • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
                Robert Shrimsley
                UK needs no lessons from apologists for rioters

                The historic mission of mainstream politics is to listen to the real communities, not their malign mouthpieces

                Ann Kiernan illustration of a Banksy-style graffiti of a rioter about to throw a brick but who has a surveillance camera in his face and a hand reaching out to him with handcuffs.
              • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
                News in-depth
                False information cases in wake of riots test UK’s online safety law

                Authorities have moved swiftly to punish people alleged to have been involved in the worst unrest England has experienced since 2011

                Montage of two smartphones showing TikTok and X against a background showing a youth in a hooded top about to throw an object
              • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
                UK politics
                Tom Tugendhat hits out at Starmer’s response to far-right violence

                Tory leadership hopeful accuses PM of ‘falling short’ in ‘first test’ since taking office

                Tom Tugendhat
              • Monday, 12 August, 2024
                Two 12-year-olds plead guilty over UK riots

                Prosecutions for violent disorder are youngest to date over far-right violence

                Riots in Southport on July 30
              • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
                Ministers warn UK riots will set back efforts to fix justice system

                Labour government inherited Crown Court backlog of 68,000 cases and prison overcrowding crisis

                A police officer looking at a car that is on fire
              • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
                Luke Tryl
                Rioting has left Britain deeply shaken

                Fear and dismay are widely shared but new research reveals more profound, and differing, sources of unease

              • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
                Explainer
                How are judges dealing with England’s rioters?

                Fast-track hearings have led to more than 30 individuals appearing in Crown Court so far as prosecutors bring range of charges

                Montage of photos issued by police forces and the CPS of some of the defendants who have appeared in court following serious disorder during anti-immigration protests in the UK
              • Friday, 9 August, 2024
                UK considers forcing tech firms to remove ‘legal but harmful’ content after riots

                Proposals come as first person jailed for online posts that stoked far-right violence

                Riot police hold back protesters after disorder broke out on July 30 in Southport
              • Friday, 9 August, 2024
                Camilla Cavendish
                When the dust settles after the riots, Britain will need a rethink

                While lurid predictions of civil war are misplaced, this is not a country at ease with itself

                A man wearing a Union Jack scarf around his eyes brandishes a mobile phone in one hand and a brick in the other
              • Friday, 9 August, 2024
                Hooligans, criminals, children: Who are the UK rioters?

                First ‘swift justice’ court cases show those convicted for far-right violence

                Rioters in Rotherham
              • Friday, 9 August, 2024
                The Weekend Essay
                How to read a riot

                Violence on British streets has reopened an age-old debate about what drives disorder — and what can be done about it

                A group of men are gathered on a grassy area, holding planks and sticks. Some are draped in England flags, one waves a union jack and many are filming with phones
              • Friday, 9 August, 2024
                News in-depthUK immigration
                UK immigration: why public opinion is at odds with reality

                Academic studies and official data highlight misconceptions around impact of new arrivals on economy and society

                Protesters hold signs for and against UK immigration
              • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
                Starmer tells police to stay on ‘high alert’ as UK rioters jailed

                PM says police operations and swift execution of justice have acted as a deterrent after days of violence

                Keir Starmer speaks to police officers
              • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
                Far-right riots centred on England’s deprivation hotspots

                Areas hit by violence also have high proportion of asylum seekers housed there, FT analysis shows

                Montage showing a man, map of england and bar chart
              • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
                Huge UK anti-racist rallies held as far-right protests fail to materialise

                Thousands gather to protect locations thought to be targets for violence

                Anti-racism demonstrators in Walthamstow, London, on Wednesday
              • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
                Telegram use surged after UK stabbing as rioters turn to chat apps

                Messaging service, known for ‘hands off’ approach to content moderation, faces pressure to tackle extremist groups

                A montage of the messenger paper airplane logo in front of riot police
              • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
                UK shops shut over fears of more violence as rioter jailed for 3 years

                Businesses send staff home early amid fears of far-right unrest on Wednesday evening

              • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
                Inside Politics
                Whose riots are they anyway?

                Early polls give clues about whether support for Nigel Farage’s party has peaked; plus, Tory leadership contenders jostle

                Nigel Farage on election night
              • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
                Tory rhetoric on migrants created ‘climate’ for far-right riots, say critics

                Claims of asylum seeker ‘invasion’ fuelled hatred, they warn

                An anti-immigration demonstration near parliament on July 31 in response to the fatal stabbing of three children in Stockport
              • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
                UK faces resistance from X over taking down disinformation during riots

                Social media site owner Elon Musk has also been posting jibes at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer

                Riots outside a hotel in Rotherham which is being used as an asylum hotel
              • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
                Far-right groups plan to target homes in attack on lawyers, police told

                Keir Starmer vows to take ‘all necessary action’ to end unrest as online message reveals plan for co-ordinated action

                Rioters throw a flaming wheelie bin
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