For my views to align with Suella Braverman’s, it would require an evolution on the magnitude of the Fish-Tetrapod Transition, but incredibly, I think she might be on to something when she hints at the threats to civil society. She was wrong about London’s “hate marches” (there was plenty of hate, but they passed off peacefully enough). She was wrong about Rwanda (wrong in principle, wrong by law). But however she came to it, there is a sliver of truth in the idea that our social fabric is starting to fray.
Braverman herself played a small part in this. By being so inflammatory about the pro-Palestine movement she facilitated the far-Right thugs who turned out to defend the honour of our beloved dead by smashing through a police barricade. Braverman didn’t conjure these men out of thin air: until Remembrance Sunday, they’d been merrily killing time on Peaky Blinders cosplay weekends.
