The police have already made several arrests following despicable violence that broke out in Southport earlier this week in the wake of the mass stabbing of children at a Taylor Swift holiday party. They continue hunting down the other perpetrators — but the harder question is how to deal with the rise of the far-Right. Its thuggish supporters were behind the disorder, and the spread of disinformation and fake news that is fuelling such extremism.
The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said that she will examine calls for the English Defence League to be placed alongside other far-Right groups such as National Action on the list of proscribed terrorist organisations.
