Engaging with minorities through group ‘leaders’ has perverted policing. Let’s not make that error again
On holiday during the recent riots, I got the over-lurid impression one tends to collect of events at home when abroad. Britain was burning, it seemed. The “far-Right” was taking over. Elon Musk said that civil war was “inevitable”.
Now I am back, it does not feel like that. It is true the trouble was widespread. Some of it – especially the attempt to set fire to an asylum hotel and the many assaults on police officers – was truly nasty.
