Fringe fanatics have taken hold of the public narrative

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All nuance and humanity are effectively obliterated – but so are the real issues (PA)

It is time to accept that the lunatic fringes of the right in Britain, as in the US, have taken hold of the public narrative.

Simply reporting verbatim the verbal vomit of those who easily grab headlines with their simplistic, caustic, endlessly repeated one-liners is naive to the point of negligence.

For example, the issue of vulnerable migrants is receptively portrayed as a “stop-the-boats” issue – Braverman’s narrative. All nuance and humanity are effectively obliterated, but so are the real issues lying behind – the Home Office’s incompetence and cruelty processing asylum.