How can we stop the riots?
The Rundown by PoliticsHome
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4.1 • 105 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
After widespread unrest took over the country after the tragic stabbings in Southport last week, Alain Tolhurst looks at what is behind the current riots, how to stop them from happening again, and what can be done to put communities divided by extremism and racism back together again. Joining him
Chris Webb, Labour MP for Blackpool South, one of the areas marred by violence, Sunder Katwala, director of think tank British Future, Prof Matthew Feldman, a specialist on right-wing extremism at the University of York, and Claudia Wallner, research fellow and associate in RUSI’s Terrorism and Conflict research group.
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Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst, and this week we're covering the widespread unrest that's taken over the country since the tragic stabbing since Southport last week. |
| 0:16.2 | What's behind these racist-fueled riots, how we've stopped them from happening again, and what can be done to put communities divided by extremism back together again? To discuss the role of far right the impact |
| 0:25.3 | social media has had and what government and civil society can do in responding, I'm delighted |
| 0:29.3 | to say I have with me, Chris Webb, Labour MP for Blackpool South, one of those areas marred by rioting |
| 0:33.5 | this week, as well as Sunda-Catwalla, Director of the Think Tank, British Future, Professor Matthew Feldman, a specialist on right-wing extremism who teach the University of York, |
| 0:40.7 | and Claudia Walner, Research Fellow and Associate at the Defence and Security think tank, |
| 0:43.9 | Russey's Terrorism and Conflict Research Group. |
| 0:46.9 | So I'm going to start with you, Chris. We're recording it on Thursday morning. |
| 0:51.0 | There was more demonstrations on Wednesday night, including in Blackpool. |
| 0:55.4 | Mostly, though, met with kind of large groups of anti-racism and anti-fascist groups, |
| 0:58.9 | and thankfully much less unrest than we've seen previously. |
| 1:01.5 | You were out on the streets last night. |
| 1:03.8 | Just tell us what it was like out there. |
| 1:05.4 | It was quite haunting to see a community coming out to protect itself, to protect local shops, |
| 1:10.7 | to protect local community |
| 1:11.8 | organisations and charities that were in fear. They closed yesterday. They lost a lot of money because |
| 1:18.0 | it's a busy day in the peak season of Blackpool. But what I saw was residents coming out to |
| 1:23.0 | make their voices heard from the small group of rioters and folks that they're not welcome on the streets of Blackpool. |
| 1:29.9 | It was great to see. It contained the violence. It contained the issues. Only two people were arrested, |
| 1:35.8 | no bad of police. We had a heavy police presence. There was no vandalism. And it was great to see |
| 1:41.7 | a community coming out and making their voice heard and saying not in our name. |
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