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  • Police officers detain far-right protesters in Plymouth

    Keir Starmer promises to protect communities amid fears of further riots

  • Family photograph posted online by Tammy, including her 88-year-old grandmother.

    Woman pleads for rioters to avoid grandmother’s home in Nottingham

    Granddaughter makes plea online after address included on list of targets for Wednesday protests
  • Police in hi-viz jackets and a medic as a person appears to be detained

    Immigration lawyers ‘at risk’ amid far-right threats to target advice centres

    Police chiefs announce deployment of extra 2,200 riot officers as list of 60 immigration centres circulated online

  • UK riots live: Keir Starmer promises communities ‘will be safe’ following Cobra meeting

  • Muslim leaders urge restraint in response to far-right attacks

  • Elon Musk calls PM ‘two-tier Keir’ over police response to UK riots

  • Public services priority for Welsh people, not devolution, says new first minister

  • Unions welcome scrapping of Tories’ ‘spiteful’ minimum service law

  • UK reportedly suspends arms export licence applications for Israel ‘pending review’

  • England riots: how has ‘two-tier policing’ myth become widespread?

  • Two-child benefit cap is cementing regional poverty, Starmer told

Opinion

  • Keir Starmer

    The Guardian view on Labour and the trade unions: thrust together by more than history

  • George Monbiot

    These riots are more than thuggery: they’re the outcome of 14 years of Tory race-baiting

    George Monbiot
  • Marina Hyde

    Where are the brave inciters of Britain’s race riots? From Tommy to Elon, they’re far, far away

    Marina Hyde
  • Polly Toynbee

    England’s GPs are squaring up to the government – but it’s an unnecessary battle

    Polly Toynbee

  • The Guardian view on the riots: culpability in high places

  • The Tories need a clear ideology – Farage and the hard right offer only moral and electoral ruin

    John Harris

  • A simple solution to Rachel Reeves’ spending cuts? Stop subsidising the banks

    Larry Elliott

  • Republicans beware: weaponising pets is a political minefield

    Stewart Lee

  • Britain didn’t vote Labour just to get a new iron chancellor

    William Keegan

  • Britain has shifted away from prejudice, but are we facing a dangerous new time?

    Sunder Katwala

  • Putting a stop to far-right violence is an early, defining test of Keir Starmer’s mettle

    Andrew Rawnsley

  • Women are being spat on outside my abortion clinic. Where is the safe zone we’re legally entitled to?

    Michaela McDaid

Features & Analysis

  • A man and a police officer stand in front of a completely destroying glass wall of a Holiday Express

    ‘Some threatened to kill us’: asylum seekers left fearful by far-right mobs

  • Tommy Robinson was arrested near the Royal Courts of Justice in London on November 26 at a march against antisemitism. Picture date: Monday January 22, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Robinson. Photo credit should read: James Manning/PA Wire

    Are the authorities powerless to stop Tommy Robinson’s online output?

  • Keir Starmer speaking in Downing Street on Sunday

    Keir Starmer decisive on mob violence but faces dilemma over Reform

  • Tommy Robinson

    The far right has moved online, where its voice is more dangerous than ever

Politics Weekly UK
Every Thursday, Guardian political columnist John Harris hosts a cast of voices from up and down the country as well as across the political spectrum to analyse the week’s political news.

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Cartoons

  • Ben Jennings on the plight of asylum seekers amid Britain’s riots – cartoon

    Ben Jennings on the plight of asylum seekers amid Britain’s riots – cartoon

  • Nicola Jennings on the government’s response to far-right riots – cartoon

    Nicola Jennings on the government’s response to far-right riots – cartoon

    Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer have warned those involved that they will feel the full force of the law
  • Nigel Farage as a clown, aka 'Farago Dogwhistle, the Clacton carpetbagger'

    Chris Riddell on Nigel Farage and his dogwhistle politics – cartoon

    The riots in Southport and elsewhere are meat and drink to the leader of Reform UK

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