There's another protest outside of Bell Hotel in Epping this evening. There's a crowd of about 200 here and it's gradually getting bigger. There are 3 police carriers here now and lots of chatter about where the planned counter protest is.


Very ugly scenes in Epping tonight. Essex Police have seemingly called in help from the British Transport Police to try and manage the situation. The counter protesters are effectively penned in, and have been pelted with rocks, eggs and flour. The anger amongst the crowd is palpable. We're at a stand off and traffic through Epping, past the Tower School, is currently going nowhere.

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The development & amplification of social media trends has helped accelerate the spread of misinformation since the start of the #UKriots. However, today I think we're seeing a new trend emerge following in the wake of the @metpoliceuk arrests. I'll explain... First we had "Save our Kids". This stoked anger that fuelled racism, islamophobia & created a clear dividing line of "them vs. us" on social media. This was fertile ground for the spread of misinformation at speed.

And authorities were caught out, badly.

🧵A thread from tonight's protest in Whitehall 📷

There were some very ugly scenes in Central London tonight with flashpoints between protesters + police very early on, following the break away group that headed to Parliament Square & the Churchill statue not long after 7pm.





The protest became confrontational soon after, with chants of "You're not British anymore!" + "Where were you in Leeds?" directed at the police along Whitehall. There was a lot of racially charged chanting as well.

The crowds broke through the barriers on several occasions.

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Last week, I shared a tweet poking fun at @marksandspencer's cheeseburger pasta salad. What I didn't expect was that it would result in write-ups on both local and national news websites.

However, as it's been almost a week, I have a confession...

1/19 The post was only ever meant for a @cityjournalism advanced lecture. My initial idea was to cover a variety of key topics, including how to write on social media using SEO and keywords, the placement of photos and videos to add interest etc.

It escalated a tad.

2/19

The world's press are here to report on the death of #PrincePhilip the #dukeofedingburgh, and I've not seen these sorts of numbers around #BuckinghamPalace since before #lockdown. Westminster Abbey begins to ring the tenor bell 99 times in a mark of respect to #PrincePhilip the #DukeOfEdinburgh, and for some of the spectators here to pay their respects to #Philip it's a fairly low key spectacle. Passers-by seem quite bemused.