"A pastor at the scene where multiple houses were on fire said people were being put out of houses "because they're black".
In another scene, 100 masked men made their way down a street & kicked in doors & broke windows.They said they were "getting the foreigners out""
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The 12th July is just over a month away and the lead up starts weeks before. If the UK government and NI executive don't get a grip on this asap it will roll into July, and escalate in Northern Ireland. This is a real test of leadership for both.
Went back to Schumacher's Small is Beautiful (a book I have a slightly love-hate relationship with) to look up something, and couldn't help but roll my eyes at the enduring applicability of this
On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.
Britain at Bay begins with a right-wing pogrom in Belfast in 1935 which left hundreds of terrorized people homeless, and about which the Westminster government dithered and eventually did nothing.
Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me there has been "no change" to the Government's policy on using X, despite Elon Musk helping to incite the hateful scenes we saw in Belfast last night.
Also no new plans to take action against X for its role in the violence
Just because the sound was tinny and the moving pictures were in juddery black and white, it doesn't mean the 1930s are no longer relevant.