A.N. WILSON: The police were prepared for the worst. We were all braced for a violent and potentially terrifying night. Shops closed early. Pubs and other businesses were boarded up. People were told to stay at home, not go to work or their local High Street. These were not idle warnings. The intelligence services and the police were genuinely concerned that the far-Right organisations which had whipped up hatred and mayhem across the nation intended to put a match to 'tinder- box Britain'. In the event, something very different happened. Thousands of counter-demonstrators - in parts of London, in Brighton, Southampton, Sheffield, Liverpool, Newcastle and elsewhere - took to the streets themselves. ...read
A.N. WILSON: We must not forget the basic decency of the quiet majority
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