The unrest and violence which gripped the country last week after the killing of three young girls seems to have halted for the time being. A brief sigh of relief. But this doesn’t mean that the anger – which was unleashed on asylum seekers, police, mosques, and local communities – or what may lie beneath it, has gone away.
Keir Starmer promised that rioters would feel ‘the full force of the law’. And he has been true to his word. As many as 1,000 people have been arrested so far and almost 550 charged.
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