Public Order Act 1986

This is an examination of Nigel Farage’s incendiary rhetoric, the law of incitement and why establishment figures bleating about “two-tier justice” may be both its greatest beneficiaries and biggest hypocrites. The Phrase that preceded a riot On 2 June 2026, Nigel Farage, a millionaire former public schoolboy and establishment insider, now Reform UK leader, and Member of Parliament for Clacton,  posted a video to social media calling on the British public to respond to the death of Henry Nowak with “pure cold rage.” Within hours, hundreds of people rioted in Southampton. Riot police were pelted with bricks, rocks, flares and chairs. Eleven…