Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says politicians have helped fuel hatred and that police are not taking violence against women and girls seriously enough
A decade and a half of recent Tory rule is the main (not the only, but the main) reason for this.
Their austerity program and educational cuts threw working class, especially kids, into relative poverty and ignorance.
Their “hostile environment” policy entrenched xenophobia.
Their support for the far-right’s wet dreams of a Brexit referendum and a hard Brexit lent the chauvinists establishment support and a veneer of respectability.
Other reasons include constant boosting (and funding) of chauvinist social media accounts as part of Russia’s (and maybe China’s, etc) decade of hybrid warfare aimed at destabilising liberal democracies and eroding support for human rights.
A lot of journalists are still on Twitter too, I assume they’re being brain washed by all the fascist propaganda or simply emboldend. The coverage of that academic who killed himself, shows that a lot of journalists are becoming quite blatant in their racism.
Trump has also emboldened the racists internationally, and Trump aligned actors (including Musk), are pushing far right propaganda globally but also in the UK.
A decade and a half of recent Tory rule is the main (not the only, but the main) reason for this.
Their austerity program and educational cuts threw working class, especially kids, into relative poverty and ignorance.
Their “hostile environment” policy entrenched xenophobia.
Their support for the far-right’s wet dreams of a Brexit referendum and a hard Brexit lent the chauvinists establishment support and a veneer of respectability.
Other reasons include constant boosting (and funding) of chauvinist social media accounts as part of Russia’s (and maybe China’s, etc) decade of hybrid warfare aimed at destabilising liberal democracies and eroding support for human rights.
A lot of journalists are still on Twitter too, I assume they’re being brain washed by all the fascist propaganda or simply emboldend. The coverage of that academic who killed himself, shows that a lot of journalists are becoming quite blatant in their racism.
Trump has also emboldened the racists internationally, and Trump aligned actors (including Musk), are pushing far right propaganda globally but also in the UK.
And as you say, there’s the whole Russia thing.