Hold a placard or a flag, or vandalize a war plane in protest of genocide, and Britain will brand you a terrorist. But burn down peoples homes in a race riot and it’s all white boys will be white boys.
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
A massive shift is taking place here. Well-organised far-right terrorism is being treated as ordinary criminality, while conscience-driven protests against genocide are treated as terrorism. A highly conservative (and deeply weird and fantastical) Court of Appeal ruling embeds this shift.
