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Israeli ‘Double-Tap’ Strike on Beirut Beachfront Hits Tents of Displaced An Israeli ‘double-tap’ strike on a Beirut beach where displaced people had pitched tents for shelter killed eight people and wounded 31 yesterday. Al-Jazeera reported that the attack on the Ramlet al-Baida beach was beyond any zone in which Israel had issued evacuation orders. The bombs were likely intended as assassination strikes, according to their reporter Heidi Pett. “This area is home to many displaced people who don’t have anywhere else to go,” she said. A ‘double-tap’ is a controversial tactic in which an initial attack is followed after a short interval by a second strike on the same target, potentially killing any rescue workers or journalists who arrive at the scene. “Witnesses in Ramlet al-Baida say they were sleeping in their tents when the roar of the jets woke them,” said Pett. “Then there was an impact and they popped their heads out of their tents in time to see the second one.” The latest attacks came after Lebanese health officials said the number of people killed by Israeli attacks since 28 February has reached 634. *Sophia Sheera is a journalist in Novara Media’s social media team.* https://novaramedia.com/2026/03/12/israeli-double-tap-str…

Meet the AI Rapper Working for the Far-Right A[ self-shot phone video ][1]shows an Asian man standing in a crowd saying “We are here” to the camera. Cut to a chiseled skinhead. He snorts in derision and replies, “Not for long”, before covering his face in a union jack bandana. The social media video then cuts to a clip of the skinhead marching in military-style formation with dozens of others, all wearing black fatigues. Next, he slams a man to the ground. Then, we see the shaven headed man speeding a van labelled “deportation unit” through London. Finally, a queue for a deportation flight out of the country. The skinhead is Danny Bones, a new musician who raps about immigration, national identity and a broken Britain, while taking vigilante action against migrants and rioting against the police – part pop star, part action hero. The video to [his most popular song This Is England][2] looks gritty, drawing on images of a country in decline. Rubbish-strewn back streets, boarded-up shops, cars gutted by arson, graffiti and crap weather. “This is England” he sings plaintively in the song’s chorus, “don’t ask why”. Britain is “falling” and this is the grim reality. But Bones is not real. Look closely and all the telltale signs of AI slop are there. The video jerks in places. He looks human enough, but Bones’s mouth doesn’t quite track with the lyrics. The bleak aesthetic is hyper-real and yet feels strangely other worldly. It’s hard not to get the sense that you’re watching a scene cut from a video game. Bones is an AI creation created by a shadowy agency linked to a far-right political party [backed by the world’s richest man][3]. An [investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism][4] has uncovered links between the operation behind the persona and Ben Habib’s party Advance UK. Experts believe this is the first time an AI character has been linked to a political party, and say Bones is a concerning sign of things to come. ### Far-right slop. The fact that Bones doesn’t exist hasn’t stopped him gaining a level of success that many musicians could only dream of. He sounds fairly human and the production quality of his tracks is better than you might expect from AI. His creators, the Node Project, call Bones “a British storyteller who writes how he sees it. Working-class, worn down and still swinging… Every word sounds like it comes from somewhere real, despite carrying the feeling that nothing really is.” His four tracks have garnered more than 375,000 Spotify and YouTube streams, but his music has reached a far larger audience via short-form video. His songs are cut into YouTube shorts, Instagram reels and TikToks that have been viewed nearly three million times. [Danny Bones plays his guitar in an AI generated image. Image: The Node Project]Danny Bones plays his guitar in an AI generated image. Image: The Node Project The lyrics to Bones’s songs touch on government authoritarianism, [crumbling public services][5], growing inequality and the general decline in material living standards. To a casual listener, This Is England could almost sound like an iconoclastic leftwing protest song. It plays on concerns that are widely held across the country. “Streets are boarded, the prices are soaring… The rich getting richer, the poor get extorted, they’ll paint you a picture all broke and distorted,” Bones spits. However, look and listen carefully and the implicit message that foreigners are ultimately to blame becomes clear. The video for This Is England crescendoes as Bones leads a crowd of men carrying St George’s crosses with their fists in the air. “The streets are saying that it’s Britain that we’re mourning. Benefits are rampant, the borders are opening,” he sings. In his track Traitors Freestyle, Bones raps about opponents trying to “rid you of your heritage”. In another track, Shut Up, he rails: “Won’t buy the lies you’re selling with the goal of separation with more mass immigration, ain’t a thought of preservation.” The nationalistic tone of the lyrics and imagery is no accident. Bones was created by a creative project that has been linked to the far-right party Advance UK. Former Reform UK co-deputy leader Habib launched Advance UK last year. Habib [recently signalled][6] that he would like to join forces with Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain party, potentially creating a force even further right than Reform. In August, Advance UK got backing from the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who said: “Advance UK will actually drive change. [Nigel] Farage is weak sauce who will do nothing.” It’s unclear who is behind the Node Project. It told Novara Media that it is “a creative project built around fictional characters, music, visual storytelling and world-building”. [An Advance UK campaign video][7] – previously the flagship video on the party’s website before it was taken down earlier this week – is made by the Node Project and soundtracked by an instrumental version of This Is England. (The Node Project told Novara Media the video used a “separate instrumental interpolation only, with no Bones lyrics, and it was not the same instrumental as any released Bones track”.) The campaign video, released in January and viewed more than 250k times, is a selective run-through of the history of England, replete with Roman soldiers, Game of Thrones-style knights in plate armour and the Beatles walking Abbey Road, and ends with the slogan “a culture worth defending”. More videos using Bones’ track This Is England and promoting Advance UK popped up last month. One, made by the Node Project, shows Habib [announcing Advance UK’s immigration policy][8]. The other is from Advance UK’s youth wing and states that [the English are “an ethnic group and nation native to England”][9] over images of an armoured knight bearing the St George’s flag and thatched medieval-style housing. ### Un-fucking-believable. The AI character of Bones – remember he isn’t real – made a number of interventions in February’s Gorton and Denton by-election, which was bitterly contested between the Greens, Reform and Labour. In one video, Bones calls the Green party publishing an Urdu version of a campaign video [“un-fucking-believeable”][10]. In another, he bemoans Green candidate Hannah Spencer’s victory because she “campaigned in Urdu [and] fucking Bengali, Palestinian and Pakistani flags everywhere, not a union jack in sight”. The AI-generated rapper goes on to claim that [“Manchester’s anthem’s gonna be the call to fucking prayer before we know it”][11], while the cover of Oasis’s seminal 1994 album Definitely Maybe flashes across the screen. Disturbingly, in a reference to the [diverse ethnic makeup of the constituency][12], Bones adds: “You lot got fuck all in common except a postcode.” In a third, Bones highlights claims of sectarianism from [Reform’s Gorton and Denton candidate Matt Goodwin][13], and blames Reform for attempting to distance itself from those further to the right, saying: [“Your party called us all extremists…][14] I guess you got what you wanted.” Spencer told Novara Media that she finds how widespread AI content is becoming “really alarming”, and that political actors “hiding behind AI characters to promote their political messaging is both cowardly and undermines the integrity of our democracy”. The newly-elected Green MP for Gorton and Denton said: “I am concerned by the use, in particular, of AI characters who are used to spread misinformation and hatred about particular groups in society. “We need to be rebuilding trust in politics and politicians by delivering for people, not sowing division.” [A post on social media from the Node Project featuring AI generated character Amelia.]A post on social media from the Node Project featuring AI generated character “Amelia”. The Node Project makes political videos with another AI character, too – a purple-haired [“cute goth girl” called Amelia][15] who was co-opted by the online far-right from a Home Office-funded anti-radicalisation video game. The Node Project has attempted to create an extended universe with the two characters. Amelia [appears in the music video ][16]for Bones’ track Shut Up, as the pair go on a rampage with assault rifles through an Orwellian Britain. Later, Amelia breaks Bones out of prison and the pair share a kiss. [In another video][17], as Amelia slams the Green party’s Bengali translation campaign video, a Bones poster is clearly visible on her bedroom wall. The borders between this fantasy world and real-life politics are increasingly blurred. Nick Buckley, Advance UK’s candidate for Gorton and Denton, made a [tongue in cheek announcement][18] that he had been “endorsed” by AI-generated Amelia last month. During the campaign, Buckley faced a backlash over [a social media post][19] from May 2025 in which he said that “many British young women are whores but don’t realise they are”. The former Reform mayoral candidate added that British women “make poor wives and poor mothers” and “contribute to the idea that all women are easy and can be abused”. He called the endorsement from Amelia “high praise indeed”. When questioned about Advance UK using the Node Project videos by the Bureau, Habib said: “We asked them to do it. I thought it went down very well. It got lots of likes and stuff.” He added “Some of it’s hard to recognise [as] CGI.” Another senior figure at Advance UK said the Node Project was “a joy to work with” and that the party plans to commission more content from it. ### A sign of things to come. The involvement of political AI-generated characters in a hotly-contested by-election could be a sign of things to come. A spokesperson for the Electoral Commission told Novara Media that it expects “anyone using AI-generated campaign material to do so in a way that does not mislead voters, and to label it clearly so that voters know how it has been created”. It also encouraged voters “to think critically about the material they see” and highlighted the need for all platforms that allow election content to create comprehensive social media ad libraries so users can see “detailed and accurate information such as the targeting, actual reach and amount spent”. Matteo Bergamini, founder of political and media literacy non-profit Shout Out UK, said the use of AI characters by political parties is a growing trend, and it’s “safe to assume these tactics will continue to grow in regularity as we get closer to the next general election”. The Node Project’s verified X account – complete with a cover photo of Bones leading a march of young white men with their fists raised – regularly posts and [reposts ethnonationalist][20] and [Islamophobic content][21], interspersed with some [Christian nationalism][22]. It also interacts supportively with far-right figures including [Tommy Robinson][23], [Rupert Lowe][24] and [Habib][25], even [advocating for a merger ][26]between Habib’s Advance UK and Lowe’s Restore Britain. AI characters Amelia and Danny Bones. When contacted by the Bureau about Bones, TikTok banned the account for breaching its rules on hateful content; Instagram took down some content but did not ban the account; YouTube added transparency labels to let viewers know they are watching AI; and Spotify said the tracks went through human review and were not breaking its rules. The Node Project told the Bureau that it is run by “a small group of creatives” and isn’t “tied to any label, movement or organisation”. It said Advance UK reached out towards the end of 2025 and commissioned the “British culture” video that previously sat on its homepage. The Node Project said “that video was something we chose to do creatively rather than as part of any formal arrangement” and “some other video pieces produced later were commissioned creative work and paid through existing creative businesses connected to the people involved in producing them”. The Node Project said it “isn’t affiliated with Advance UK and we don’t work for the party beyond those freelance commissions”. The Node Project didn’t address the operation’s content targeting the Gorton and Denton by-election, but denied the characterisation of the project or its content as Islamophobic. Advance UK has been contacted for comment. [1]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2027700538989486481/v… [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__QWMRCaPOA&list=RD__QWMR… [3]: https://www.foxnews.com/world/elon-musk-wades-back-uk-pol… [4]: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-03-12/… [5]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2031438168453464133?s=20 [6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-SjlHDDVbo [7]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fETi3LxWk78 [8]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2021647771351371991?s=20 [9]: https://x.com/AdvanceUKF/status/2025547097341067496?s=20 [10]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2026016849532457405?s=20 [11]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2027441553942131109 [12]: https://swingometer.substack.com/p/the-gorton-and-denton-… [13]: https://novaramedia.com/2026/03/03/matt-goodwin-published… [14]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2027769126773465227?s=20 [15]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/25/ai-gener… [16]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kX1t_fn0No&list=RD4kX1t_… [17]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2026374658333835517?s=20 [18]: https://x.com/NickBuckleyMBE/status/2024506747050750061?s=20 [19]: https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/02/advance-uks-elect… [20]: https://x.com/TradEngland/status/2030287935065534555?s=20 [21]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2027700538989486481?s=20 [22]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2029990200190136524?s=20 [23]: https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/2025516324680532177?… [24]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2027010669195690390?s=20 [25]: https://x.com/benhabib6/status/2024836151366787357?s=20 [26]: https://x.com/thenodeproject/status/2023496281466053000?s=20 https://novaramedia.com/2026/03/12/meet-the-ai-rapper-wor…

High Court Rules in Favour of Owen Jones in BBC Gaza Libel Case A High Court judge has ruled in favour of Guardian columnist Owen Jones in a libel case brought against him by a BBC editor. Raffi Berg, the BBC’s Middle East editor, took legal action in November last year over a report by Jones which laid the blame for the BBC’s biased coverage of the Gaza genocide largely at Berg’s door. The high court has now ruled that the article’s argument was acceptable because it expressed an opinion based on a quoted body of material. “I am delighted that the high court has ruled in my favour on the key issues in the libel case brought by Raffi Berg,” said Jones. “I stand by my journalism and, if Mr Berg decides to continue the libel claim, I look forward to defending my article in court.” In his article for Drop Site News, Jones accused Berg of sanitising coverage of Israel’s genocidal violence in Gaza. “The implication is that my client goes around making decisions that actively favour Israel,” Berg’s barrister told the court at a hearing on Friday. “He is a bent journalist, that’s what the article is saying.” Berg instructed Mark Lewis of Patron Law, previously a director of UK Lawyers for Israel, as his solicitor. The case is one of the first in the UK where a journalist from a major national news outlet has sued another. The last notable case was in 2019, when the BBC’s John Ware sued Paddy French, an independent journalist and former current affairs producer at ITV, for describing his Panorama documentary on Labour antisemitism as a “rogue piece of journalism”. A judge awarded Ware £90,000 in damages. *Sophia Sheera is a journalist in Novara Media’s social media team.* https://novaramedia.com/2026/03/12/high-court-rules-in-fa…

Starmer Has Dragged Labour ‘Into the Gutter’ Says John McDonnell Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has accused Keir Starmer of dragging the Labour party “into the gutter” in the wake of yesterday’s release of the Mandelson files. A tranche of documents disclosing the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador has revealed that the prime minister was warned of Mandelson’s “reputational risks” in 2024, before he chose the twice-fired Labour veteran to be sent to Washington. Responding to the 147-page dossier, McDonnell called for an independent inquiry into Labour Together, the think tank founded by Morgan McSweeney which advised Starmer’s leadership campaign. Labour Together is under scrutiny for failing to declare £730,000 in donations and paying private investigators to spy on journalists investigating its funding. On X, McDonnell said Starmer had allowed Labour “to be dragged into the gutter by Mandelson, McSweeney, Simons & Labour Together”. Mandelson’s close ties to Epstein were revealed when the US government released the Epstein files in January, ultimately prompting the resignation of McSweeney, Starmer’s chief of staff. The latest release of files confirms that Starmer had access to a 2019 report from JPMorgan stating that Epstein had maintained a “particularly close friendship” with both Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. The files reveal that Jonathan Powell, Keir Starmer’s national security advisor, thought Mandelson’s appointment was “weirdly rushed”. Documents also show that Mandelson asked for a £500,000 severance payment after he was sacked in September over his “close relationship” with Epstein. The government eventually paid him £40,330. Mandelson is currently under police investigation over allegations that he shared sensitive market information with Epstein while in office. He previously apologised for his friendship with Epstein and “to the women and girls that suffered.” The government intends to release the rest of the Mandelson files in one further batch. *Sophia Sheera is a journalist in Novara Media’s social media team.* https://novaramedia.com/2026/03/12/starmer-has-dragged-la…

‘It’s Ballsy of Them’: How Emboldened Far-Right Activists Are Attacking Antifascist Strongholds in Bristol [Bristol Patriots gather at the Cenotaph in Bristol, to protest against immigration on 5 October 2025. Photo: JMF News/Alamy Live News] When Red discovered that far-right activists were round the corner targeting her local pub, she felt sick. “I felt like I had to go and confront them,” she told Novara Media. “It felt like life or death.” Around 30 masked activists known as the Bristol Patriots had surrounded the Red Lion in Easton, Bristol, as it hosted an antifascist fundraising gig. A photo seen by Novara Media shows balaclava-clad men outside the pub carrying a St George’s flag. One was wearing what appeared to be a stab vest with union jack patches while another two were wearing tactical gloves with hardened knuckles. “For over an hour, the group surrounded the pub, blocked access points, used amplified sound equipment, chanted slogans, and directed abuse toward people entering and leaving the premises,” according to [a statement][1] put out by the Red Lion on Facebook. “Passing members of the public, including families and local residents, were subjected to shouted threats and intimidation.” Red, who spoke to Novara Media using a pseudonym, said: “I spoke to one of them [the Bristol Patriots] and said, ‘Why have you come to our community to cause violence?’ They saw my keffiyeh and they called me a terrorist … It was really bizarre.” According to [a statement][2] put out by Bristol Antifascists, the far-right activists tried to enter the pub, but “due to the quick thinking of people there, they were shut out”. Thanks to a “great community response”, they eventually became outnumbered and were “forced out of the area by police for their own protection,” Bristol Antifascists said. [Mask-wearing Bristol Patriots outside the Red Lion in Eastonm, Bristol on Sunday 15 February. Photo: Supplied]Mask-wearing Bristol Patriots outside the Red Lion in Easton, Bristol, on Sunday 15 February. Photo: Supplied The incident, which took place in mid-February, shocked those who live in Bristol, a city widely viewed as an antifascist haven. What was even more unusual was that it took place in Easton. “Easton is a proudly leftwing part of Bristol,” local resident Malachi Walusimbi-Kakembo told Novara Media. “To come into Easton is bold.” Another local anti-racist, who chose not to give their name, agreed. “Easton has got such an active antifascist, anti racist scene. “It was really unusual for [the far right] to try something at one of those pubs in Easton. … It’s ballsy of them.” Bristol Antifascists warned that the attack was “an escalation” from the Bristol Patriots, and should be a “wake up call for all of us” about how the far-right is becoming more and more emboldened. “We invest in our community and take care of one another, and we’re not succumbing to the fascist rhetoric that’s becoming so popular globally,” said Red. “So it was devastating to see that nowhere is safe.” ### Playing the victim. Bristol, a port city, played a major role in the transatlantic slave trade, but its recent history is one of antiracism and a vibrant leftwing counterculture. Its residents achieved global acclaim during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 when they [toppled a statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston][3]. At the 2024 general election, Bristol Central was one of four constituencies across the country to elect a Green MP – Carla Denyer. Despite this, Bristol has been far from immune from the wave of far-right protests sweeping the country in recent months. Hotels in the city housing asylum seekers were the target of anti-migrant demonstrations last year, including one led by Ukip leader Nick Tenconi [who branded Bristol][4] a “communist run hell hole”. While anti-migrant protests have died down for now, far-right groups appear to be keeping themselves busy by harassing the left. Just a week after the attack on the Red Lion in Easton, activists from [Zionist group Our Fight][5] prevented pro-Palestine activists from holding a doorknocking session in Bishopston, to the north of the city, to encourage people to boycott Israeli products. An organiser for Bristol Apartheid Free Zone, who chose not to be named, told Novara Media: “They [the Zionist activists] surrounded us and started harassing people and shouting. They had placards accusing us of being a Jew hunt, and various other very unpleasant and like slanderous things about the campaign. “We had three times as many people, but the whole point of our campaign is we’re about having calm conversations with people on the doorstep. If you’ve got people following you around, screaming slurs and playing incredibly obnoxious AI music [through a PA system] or filming people, we can’t really doorknock in that situation.” Some pro-Palestine campaigners were approached by Zionist activists and spoken to “by name … in a very intimidating way,” the organiser said. “They [the Zionist activists] have infiltrated some of the public facing WhatsApp groups.” The organiser said that members of the local far-right were also in attendance on the day, “being brought along for the ride… to intimidate lefties and throw their weight around.” A post on the Bristol Patriots Facebook page showed support for Our Fight and called the doorknocking “an intimidating practice that targets and harasses our Jewish community” and anyone who has their door knocked to “report to police straight away”. Our Fight has been approached for comment. The far right also played the victim in the Easton incident. Despite turning up in balaclavas and surrounding the pub, the Bristol Patriots claimed in a statement that its members had been “approached aggressively from behind” by antifascists, that a female member of the group was punched and that a disabled man was “targeted”. “The Bristol Patriot’s statement was absolute nonsense,” said Red. “They came into our neighborhood as outsiders, all ballied up, screaming and shouting and threatening us like attacking us, and they are claiming that they are the victims. It’s surreal.” The Red Lion said in a statement that the Bristol Patriots “portrayal of themselves as disciplined victims does not match what is visible on CCTV or described consistently by witnesses”. Keith Hewett, the owner of the Red Lion in Easton, told Novara Media that the barman who was present on the day was left shaken by the far right. “He’s no wallflower, but the hatred that they were showing him really upset him and made him not want to come in anymore,” he said. The furore has only intensified since February, said Hewett. “We’ve had threats. We had what can only be described as a scout from the far-right in the pub. I’ve been forwarded stuff on social media from rightwing networks inferring that the Lion is some kind of Antifa HQ.” Hewett sees the pub’s antifascist ethos as nothing out of the ordinary, however. “It’s just a community pub. Most people are antifascist, especially around here,” he said. “You don’t even have to be leftwing to be antifascist.” ### ‘We’re proud of who we are.’ The Bristol Patriots website contains little information about who is behind the group. Calling itself “a grassroots movement of concerned citizens”, its code of conduct prohibits “any form of violence, intimidation, or threatening behaviour” and bans face masks or coverings, saying “we are proud of who we are”. The only upcoming event listed on the website, meanwhile, is an upcoming rally organised by ex-English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. On Saturday, the Bristol Patriots held their own march – a so-called ‘March for Unity’. The group promoted the march by calling for members of all major religions other than Muslims to take a stand against the “growing challenge from Islamist extremism”. An online poster for the event, presumably AI generated, depicted a crusader in full plate armour next to a man holding an Israeli flag and a turban-wearing Sikh. Among those in attendance was Ryan Ferguson, a far-right activist [who recently visited][6] the former spokesperson for neo-Nazi terror group National Action, Jack Renshaw, in prison. Ferguson was [captured on video shouting][7] “Heil Hitler” at the rally. Also present was 17-year-old “Young Bob”, a prominent far-right YouTuber who often appears on Rupert Murdoch’s Talk TV. He posted a video in which he gloated as anti-racists were arrested by police, then another of himself getting punched, which went viral. In a sign that a small group of hardened activists were emboldened by their action at the Red Lion in February, Walusimbi-Kakembo told Novara Media that attendees of Saturday’s rally, who this time chose not to wear face masks, taunted people about the incident. “They were shouting at us, ‘Remember down the Red Lion. Are you still scared?’ Making a joke of it,” he said. “They seemed to be very excited about their record, coming down to the Red Lion and scaring a few people.” “It’s a surprise to realise that it is the same group of enthusiasts running around from place to place, trying to cause as much disruption as possible.” “It’s sad that people are coming out here and literally fighting each other. It’s a shame. Neither side should really end up in glee about the fact that we’re working class people throwing stuff at one another.” In the end, the “March for Unity” was an embarrassment for the Bristol Patriots. Around 40 activists spent much of the day surrounded by police in order to be kept apart from around 200 antifascists, and the scale of the anti-fascist counter-demo meant police did not allow the Bristol Patriots to stick to their original route. The group made a statement issuing an “apology regarding some of the other groups who were invited to the march by certain individuals within our community … many of the views displayed on Saturday do not align with our movement.” “It is time for us to reset,” it said. After a difficult few weeks, Red found the day comforting. “A greasy handful of fascist and far-right agitators came to our beloved city and were sent packing”, she said. “It felt like a victory that they were so outnumbered.” [1]: https://www.facebook.com/TheLionBS5/posts/joint-community… [2]: https://network23.org/bristolantifascists/2026/02/17/on-t… [3]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/black-lives-matter-protes… [4]: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/ukip-lead… [5]: https://www.vashtimedia.com/inside-stop-the-hate-the-pro-… [6]: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/far-… [7]: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/moment-ne… https://novaramedia.com/2026/03/12/its-ballsy-of-them-how…