The shoppers and shopkeepers of White Abbey Road in Bradford well remember a time almost 25 years ago when the street was engulfed in flames after a protest march against the National Front turned violent. On east London’s Brick Lane, the British-Bangladeshi population remember the invisible lines they could not cross without being set upon by the far right.
For both communities, whose showdowns with racist groups came in different decades, the atmosphere in the UK today feels worryingly familiar, with far-right sentiment on the rise, stoked by politicians.
