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'Ringleader' who attacked police and made vile racist and xenophobic rants jailed

Footage released by police shows John Robinson during his arrest as he played a 'key role' in the disorder on Saturday 3 August in Blackpool town centre
By Ed Walker
Controversial blackface memorabilia to form part of new museum collection

Bought by Blackpool Council as part of a private collection, the new Showtown museum collection includes a photograph and flyer from the 1920s showing the offensive practice of 'blacking up'.
By Michael Holmes
“Is anywhere in the world safe?”: Asylum seeking women on far-right riots

The Lead speaks to three asylum seeking and refugee women about their experiences of the violence seen across the country in the past week.
By Lauren Crosby Medlicott
Condemning violence alone won’t stop the far-right – Britain must reject xenophobia once and for all

Anti-immigrant rhetoric isn’t acceptable in any form. Ceding ground on this issue sets a ticking time bomb.

 
By Diyora Shadijanova
Exclusive: Laurence Fox seen on flight to Ireland as Starmer vows crackdown on far-right

The former actor was seen on a Ryanair flight to Cork on Saturday, 3 August as the Prime Minister slammed far-right activists "whipping up action" and "running away".
Riots show why British Jews must reject fake solidarity from the right

From rioters to ministers, the far right has long wooed British Jews for its own ends. It’s time to see it for what it really is.
By Em Hilton
By targeting "multiculturalism", the British far right launches an attack on all of us

For years, the extreme right and its legitimisers picked off minorities one by one. Now they're unveiling a wider war. 
By Diyora Shadijanova
A mom arrested over a birthmark? Hospitals must be held accountable for medical racism

A Nepalese mother was arrested in an NHS hospital because staff mistook a common birthmark for child abuse. Structural racism in medicine needs to end, and only structural upheaval can end it.
By Leah Borromeo
From Sherlock Holmes to Line of Duty, Britain loves copaganda

How the nation’s long love affair with police stories continues to shape our relationship with policing today.

 
By Leah Cowan
Blackpool's £65m Multiversity project means second forced upheaval in three years for one business

Omasan and his business have been by Blackpool’s ambitious development projects, which have delivered blow after blow to his trade
By Rachel Howarth
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