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Richard Seymour  pictures what the  BBC cannot picture . – Once again, Ulster’s peace-loving bampots determined that such violence could only have been brought to Northern Ireland by brown-skinned interlopers. Never mind that the province has its own gory history of  knife violence . Never mind that Ogilvie himself had previously been  tortured  by a gang linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force, the loyalist paramilitaries that murdered Catholics with the  collusion  of the British state during the “Troubles.” – To an extent, as Séamas O’Reilly  argues  in the  New Statesman , this is a new expression of old violence: loyalists in Northern Ireland have decades of experience in burning people out of their homes and violently policing community purity. – Among all demographics in Northern Ireland, Catholic or Protestant, young or old, anti-immigrant racism is  pervasive . – Far from “two tier policing” disadvantaging whites, the evidence...

“ The apogee of the secret state in purposefully hiding information from the public in the postwar period was necessary for sculpting an official narrative about British imperialism and its war efforts divorced from the truth of its brutality. Imperialists were often all too aware that if the true nature of their mission was exposed it would also undermine the image of liberal democracy that was deployed to distinguish the West from authoritarian regimes.” State secrecy and destruction of historical records

 The riots are the death spasms of a broken Britain Related Unrest in Northern Ireland