Days of rioting in England and Belfast. Social media has been used by the far-right to spread rumours about immigrants, and organise protests that have become violent. Thousands of police officers are on alert. So what's behind the surge in violence?

In this episode:

• Shabna Begum, Chief Executive Officer, Runnymede Trust.
• Katy Brown, Postdoctoral Fellow, Maynooth University, Ireland. 
• Sohan Dsouza, Computational Social Scientist.

Host: Mohammed Jamjoom

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