This is the opening to my essay on Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” rally, published in the Observer on 21 September 2025. You can read the full version in the Observer. Mixenden lies at the edge of Halifax, West Yorkshire, a working-class town, very white and very poor. I went there more than 20 years ago, making a film for Channel 4 about multiculturalism. A British National Party candidate, Adrian Marsden, had just been elected as local councillor. It was […]

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