Dover unrest exposes serious flaws in Britain’s handling of far-right extremism
Authorities were caught off guard by the disruption, which they labelled a ‘protest’ despite mass intimidation tactics To anybody watching the videos of a group of masked men, all wearing black, descending on the port of Dover last weekend, it was immediately obvious that something novel and disturbing was happening: a mass intimidation in uniform not seen in Britain since the 1930s. Yet to the police and the rest of the UK’s intelligence apparatus, the arrival of the men chanting “stop the boa…
