As simmering tensions boil over into violence on our streets, Broadstairs writer and KentOnline columnist Melissa Todd reflects on the fears and flaws we all share – and calls for more empathy on all sides… Nobody is indigenous to the UK. No one. We are all immigrants. We are all descended from Africans. Whether your family arrived yesterday or a thousand years ago, not one of us has any more right to lay claim to this soggy lump of land than any other. I stopped watching the riots when they started setting fire to hotels with people inside, as women watched and cheered. Why does it appall me …
