‘what the rioters have done is to unite the public in opposition to violence’

Southport will fall silent for three minutes this week to remember the three girls who were tragically killed in the horrific attack that kicked off a wave of disorder across England and Wales last su

“What’s the best thing about Chatham?” Daz leans back on his workbench and laughs. “The road out of it.” The 50-year-old small business owner is joking, he clarifies. But the self-described “disillusi

A summer of violence? Controversy of the week ...

Protests outside asylum hotels have once again kicked off around the UK. But who is organising them? Experts and campaigners alike claim that anti-migration activists are “parachuting” into communitie

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

A year after the Southport knife attacks, there are remarkable tales of hope and resilience from the little girls that survived…