The emergency measures announced today to ease the prison overcrowding crisis — which will result in suspects being held in police cells across northern England instead of prison — are a direct result of the far-Right riots first triggered by disinformation spread online about the hideous killings of three girls in Southport last month
The Government and public will hope, of course, that the shocking disorder that followed will eventually be seen as an appalling one-off that won’t be repeated.
