by Ana Ribeiro
The vote on whether Britain should exit the European Union (notoriously nicknamed “Brexit”) has set off a wave of hate crimes in Britain. It represents the current nadir of a trend involving outspoken discrimination that sometimes goes beyond speech into physical violence.
The Labour MP Jo Cox was killed during the referendum campaign. She had been investigating hate crime in a parliamentary fact finding mission. A man will be tried for her murder on 14 November.
A young Polish man was recently killed in Harlow, Essex, and police are investigating his death as a hate crime. Hours after his…
