Religious hate crimes are on the rise in the UK. The most recent figures show that the overall number of hate crimes reported in England and Wales dropped by 5 percent in the year to last March. However, religious hate crimes leapt by a massive 25 percent.

Imagine how desperate people must be to get aboard a boat barely fit for purpose and then largely drift across some of the world’s most dangerous stretches of open water in the hope of finding a better life.

Throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, a lot of UK culture was based on what many saw as a “harmless bit of fun.”

There is a strange irony to the violence taking place in the UK.

Anyone who has applied for a job recently will have noticed certain words and acronyms that were not necessarily common before the coronavirus lockdowns.