Source, because itās important to stick to facts: a FOI request to the police. Screenshot below.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Case in point. The BBC right now focusing on supposed linkages between migration and national security rather than on the real issues: racist attacks, far right agitators, tactical use of one violent episode to inflame tensions in Belfast
Sarah Kay
25) If they do not start making different choices, this escalation cycle will continue as the trajectory of it is baked in now. At the end of this can only lie specific types of outcomes. Democracy is not one of them.
23) New dynamics, e.g. on X and the impact of AI, make this more complex overall, but we have always had the knowledge for different choices.
24) Most of our political leaders are choosing not to make these different choices even though the are available to them - that is why we are where we are.