Ungreat britain

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

What kent can tell us about the shape of the uk

“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

Asylum hotel protests are spreading across the uk.

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

State secrets Controversy of the week If the ...

Anarchy in the ‘yookay’ can be prevented if we stay strong

The social media-driven ‘Yookay’ is the UK imagined as a changing multicultural mess, a kind of South Africa-on-Thames. The images that accompany it include South Asian Deliveroo drivers, signage writ

Fortean Times

There’s a riot going on!

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 summer of violence? Controversy of the week ...

What kent can tell us about the shape of the uk

Asylum hotel protests are spreading across the uk.

State secrets Controversy of the week If the ...