Riots

There have been a few examples include the "Poll tax riot" in London on 31 March 1990.  Also the "Kill the Bill" protest in Bristol in March 2021, the riot began outside Bridewell police station, in the centre of the city, on Sunday 21 March 2021 as the culmination of a protest against what became the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. Police vans were set on fire, including one containing officers.

It i horrible, I find it incredible that people are going along to watch, like it's some kind of entertainment!

I'm concerned for my lovely daughter in law, she's Indian and is currently living alone, if trouble kicks off in her area she will try and get here, or I may have to go and get her, if I can.

I feel for you I was terrified by the London riots in 2011.I get scared of stock market crashes.Advice I have been given is to try and switch off think is there anything you can do about this answer no.

Try and maybe go somewhere relaxing beautiful gardens or a swim somewhere 

I just Googled "Left wing riots in the UK" and got zero relevant hits. You might need to check your sources for veracity.

Please will you check in tomorrow, just so we know things are OK or not? That sounds horrible.

Football season is about to start,  so potential rioters will be too busy at matches to riot in the street.

There's one planned for 5pm on my road, so that's delightful...

Immigration and the issue of terrorism is a long standing problem.

"Embassy staff were also warned to be vigilant about the addresses in the UK given by
applicants. In a letter from Patrick Walker in the Home Office to Trevor Gatty in the FCO,
Walker remarked that “[m]ost terrorists have given London addresses on their visa
applications” and that a solution to terrorists giving false addresses would be to provide
visa officers with copies of the London telephone directory “so that they have some means
of checking quickly the addresses in those cases where they have doubts about the
applicant’s bona fides.”   65. Letter from P. J. Walker to T. T. Gatty, August 26, 1980, FCO 50/685, NA

While my father was head of migration and visa dept at the FO1980-1981.

Biting my tongue very hard.

This is one of the things which can trigger my anxiety. Thinking of anxiety more generally, rather than about this specific issue, I have to try to find a place in my mind where reason can prevail. That can be bad enough, as it can sometimes lead to a clearer picture of any threat, but it allows me to move forward, perhaps with a plan of action. Also, getting my thoughts out into the open with clear thinking people can be positive. Also, I can be inclined to obsess over things which trouble me. Can't help thinking about them, but important to find a safe place in my mind with better and calmer thoughts. This can be doing my favourite things - contemplating nature, photography, petting a dog - anything to restore a feeling of some wellbeing just for a while. The anxiety isn't entirely gone, but it's on the periphery of my thoughts for a while, rather than being centre stage. Hope you can find your way of dealing with it.

i tend to ignore it, aside from the occasional comment and comparison to previous years of riots under far left wing activists which everyone seems to think was ok..

basically we are used to riots, they are normal in society because the far left made them normal.

what isnt normal is the police response, in past riots police and gov did nothing and allowed it, and the media praised rioters as angels and benevolent and morally justified.... the only difference now is the authoritarian police reponse and the media hate. otherwise no different to the 20 years of far left wing riots we had 5 times per year on average... another difference is these riots likely will stop now as its the working day now, notice how they happen on weekend and then they stop? .... while far left wing riots they happen none stop because they have no work to go to so its harder to predict when they will end.

its very easy to stay away from them really.... i saw a drone video of a riot and when you see it from the top, its not that big, its often focused on one small area and unless your house is coincidentally on that exact spot your often ok.

I haven't followed the news much at all since the early 1990s, I have enough 'difficulties' etc as it is. My father was expected to 'keep abreast' of the news of the day in his lifetime career as a senior member of staff in the MoD. He would 'religiously' read the Daily Telegraph (not The Sun or Daily Star) every day and watch the 10 o'clock news. It didn't do him much good (in fact, quite the contrary) from where I was standing and I do neither / none of that as a consequence (I'm here on NAS online forum instead, at times / 'in moderation') 

I try to remember that most people do not support riots, and can only hope that sense prevails. It's horrible.