The hatred games

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Perspective Media
August 07, 2024

This week, Peter Phelps looks at how hate-filled prejudice fuels riots at home and controversy at the Olympics, while Rowan Pelling finds that growing social divisions, including town vs country, are present even at a celebratory summer festival, plus our Book of the Week.

The hatred games
BY PETER PHELPS

The Olympic gender controversy and the English race riots have both been fuelled by hatred stirred up by malevolent agitators

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To the extent there’s public discontent, its root cause is social deprivation, not immigration

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Starmer to chair Cobra as police brace for further violence

Around 100 people have already been charged in connection with recent unrest, with more disorder expected on Tuesday and Wednesday.

www.perspectivemedia.com/starmer-to-chair-cobra-as-police-brace-for-further-violence

Refugee charities call for move away from ‘demonising language’

The charities said ‘racism, Islamophobia and hatred against migrants have no place in our country’.

www.perspectivemedia.com/refugee-charities-call-for-move-away-from-demonising-language

Builder who abused police is first person convicted after Rotherham rioting

Joshua Simpson turned up in the area around the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers on Sunday after hours of disorder was starting to die down.

www.perspectivemedia.com/builder-who-abused-police-is-first-person-convicted-after-rotherham-rioting

Town vs country
BY ROWAN PELLING

Rowan Pelling takes a trip to the honeystoned Cotswolds for the Wilderness Festival and finds Britain has divides on several fronts, including town vs country

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I was painfully aware that I was a prime example of a plummy-voiced London media “incomer”

The go-between

Rebecca Smith on how social class operates in the countryside

www.perspectivemedia.com/the-go-between

Book of the Week
REVIEWED BY BELINDA BAMBER

A kaleidoscopic first novel embraces love, race riots and jazz, set partly in 1960s New York and Paris

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