Summer 2025 was marked by a surge in anti-immigrant protests, attacks on mosques and racist graffiti across the UK.
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The unrest, stoked by far-right agitators such as Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, sought to pit communities against each other. But in Luton, where Tommy Robinson himself grew up, writer and journalist Taj Ali explores how the communities of his home town have resisted this division and fought back against radicalisation; and asks whether today’s economic hardships threaten to unravel that progress
Chapters:
00:00 – Good people never make the news
1:34 – Luton’s growing food poverty crisis
4:02 – Trying to keep factories in Luton
5:53 – The myth of Muslims areas and ‘no go zones’
9:38 – Andrew Tate’s estate and a radical community centre
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