Mosques pelted with bricks and bottles. Windows broken in immigrant areas, as rioters shout “smash the pakis.” Mobs trying to set hotels on fire then block the emergency exits, because they know migrants reside inside, or stopping cars to ask if the drivers are white and English before letting them pass. This is not protest. These are not ordinary folk, with legitimate concerns about migration and crime, letting passions overwhelm them. What we have seen across British towns and cities in recent days is racist, anti-Muslim violence. Beneath contempt. The question now is, how did we get here?