Last week, Reform party leader, Nigel Farage, called for "pure cold rage" after the release of bodycam police footage of 18-year-old Henry Nowak’s arrest as he lay dying from stab wounds last December.
Farage ignored the call of Nowak’s father not to use his son’s death to further divide the country.
Rage is the currency of British far right politics. It is a tool of radicalisation, nurtured by the distortions of the right-wing media against migrants, Muslims and asylum seekers over many years.
Rage politics overwhelms. Rage doesn’t need facts. It works at an emotional level, feeding on fear. We are being “invaded”. We must “fight or die”. And this kind of extreme framing is now mainstream in the UK.
Radicalisation is usually framed as a problem of Muslim communities, but in Britain, there is no greater radicalisation campaign than that promoted by far right agitators on social media from Elon Musk to Tommy Robinson, given oxygen by respectable news outlets.
