The evolution of Britain’s extreme right
White nationalism has become more amorphous and more online
THEY BROKE through the hotel doors soon after midday on August 4th. Around 700 far-right activists had gathered outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, a suburb in the deprived northern town of Rotherham, earlier in the morning. The mob chanted “get them out” and “burn it down” at asylum seekers housed inside and hurled chairs, planks and bricks at the police. Hotel staff erected barricades. At one point a rioter started a fire in a doorway. It is remarkable no one was badly hurt.
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