'Anywhere But Here': How Britain's Anti-Migrant Media Consensus Is Crowding Out the Truth

Britain's longstanding traditions of tolerance and compassion are being suppressed in favour of a media-driven campaign of anti-migrant hate

In British politics and media some voices are heard loudly while others simply aren’t. If you’re the wife of a Conservative councillor who was imprisoned after pleading guilty to inciting racial hatred against refugees, then you can expect your voice to be heard loudly, clearly and regularly.

Evidence of this could be found this week across the front pages of multiple newspapers, which sought to reframe Lucy Connolly’s call to burn down hotels full of refugees as some sort of honourable political act.

Today those same newspapers have again splashed with Connolly’s picture alongside her entirely false claim that she was a “political prisoner” of the Prime Minister.

No attempt is made to either justify, or explain how this could possibly have been the case. Yet this convicted criminal is once again granted the opportunity to have her claims loudly, clearly and repeatedly heard.

Yet for the thousands of people whose residences Connolly last year called to be burned down, no such similar platform has been granted.