Small Town, Big Riot review – a jaw-dropping documentary that says the unsayable

Why do racist riots keep breaking out in the UK? Mobeen Azhar investigates a nasty standoff in Kirkby between raging local people and refugees. What he reveals is grim, cathartic and supremely depressing When racist riots broke out across the UK in July this year, Mobeen Azhar was better placed to cover the story than most documentary-makers because he had already been investigating it for months. What happened nationally , when hostility towards refugees moved from protest to pogrom, had been f