“The fight will be long brothers, but we will succeed. Never capitulate,” read a message shared on the encrypted messaging app Telegram in the “Southport Wake Up” channel following a tragic attack on a Taylor Swift-themed dance class that left three young girls dead. Riots targeting Muslims and asylum seekers flared up across the UK.
This was the same channel that shared manuals for carrying out arson attacks and lists featuring dozens of names and addresses of immigration lawyers. In Dublin last November, after a knife attack on schoolchildren in Parnell Square, far-right agitators wasted little time in making a call to arms on Telegram. “Everyone bally [balaclava] up, tool up,” a man can be heard in a voice note. “Let’s show the f***ing media that we’re not a pushover. That no more foreigners are allowed into this poxy country.”
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