Brilliant piece of writing. Very Prophetic finishing with what Hannah Arendt would call the Banality of Evil
In early 2016, a group of mainly men in military-style ‘political’ uniforms marched through the streets of a town in the UK for the express purpose of intimidating the local populace and instilling fear. They swore at people in the street, confronting one woman as she walked from the local supermarket with her children, and her baby in a pram. She verbally fought back. Much of this was filmed and shown on social media. A judge would later rule that this group was in clear violation of legislation against the wearing of political uniforms, the Public Order Act of 1936 drafted following the march of the Black Shirts through the East End of London by the British Union of Fascists led by Oswald Mosley. Their wearing of uniforms was intended to intimidate the community through which they marched, to instil fear.
Cumberland Lodge, alongside the CCJ Council of Christians and…
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