The far right on 11 November
Far-right activists converged on central London on Saturday 11 November. Whipped up into a fury by Braverman’s dog-whistling, the far right sniffed an opportunity. Tommy Robinson, Lawrence Fox and Douglas Murray all either put out Powell-esque rhetoric, or encouraged their followers to attend to “protect statues” and to demand that the Gaza-ceasefire demonstrators show respect to the war dead. Unlike in 2020, when he helped unleash a similar situation in Central London in defence of war memorials, Tommy Robinson even made an appearance. However, when things began to turn ugly in Chinatown, he...