This week’s riots are reprehensible but UK’s liberal elite have driven people into arms of far-right

THIS week’s riots in Southport and elsewhere were, of course, reprehensible.

To attack a mosque where ordinary Muslims go to pray would have been wrong even if it had been in response to an attack by Islamic terrorists.

That those lobbing bricks at the police and setting their vehicles alight were acting on disinformation makes them look foolish as well as disgraceful.