“Please stay inside and don’t speak to anyone.” “You all need to take extra caution outside. Don’t ‘bite’ to anything anyone says to you in the street." "This is going to spill over — please keep the kids in for a few days.”
By early last week, the first messages had already started trickling in from my family WhatsApp group chat. At first it was out of an abundance of caution — spread out across Manchester, Blackburn, Liverpool and London, we were all growing slightly concerned about the increasing numbers of far-Right mobs descending on English towns and cities. But, as more and more footage from the riots began to circulate online, it quickly became clear that our warnings to one another were entirely justified.
