For years, the liberal center warned of a coming far-right threat. It posed as the line of defense against fascism. Yet now that threat is here, and the same political order is welcoming its arrival. The collapse of Britain’s old mainstream parties has opened space for such forces to move from online spaces to organized street power. That is what we will see again in London this Sunday, when the fascists around Tommy Robinson take to the streets to intimidate minorities.

Already in September 2025, Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” march drew around 110,000 people to central London, making it one of the largest far-right demonstrations in modern British history. Police said the crowd was too large for the approved Whitehall route, while around 5,000 anti-racist counterprotesters were kept apart nearby. Unsurprisingly, the day ended in violence. Robinson’s supporters clashed with police, attempted to break through lines, and left twenty-six officers injured, four of them seriously. At least two dozen people were arrested.

Since then, Robinson has been strengthened by the far right’s advance across Europe and by backers, such as Elon Musk, who want his machinery of intimidation kept alive. His movement represents the sharp edge of far-right terror in Britain: street power, moral panic, anti-Muslim hatred, and “remigration” fantasies that amount to a vision of ethnic cleansing. The neo-Nazi message sits in the language of Aryan civilization, echoing the white-supremacist politics of US groups such as the Silent Brotherhood (also known as the Order). The state’s inaction is shocking, as it allows Robinson’s movement to march under the protection of public order.