Pockets, and with the further threatened riots being closed down by anti racism demonstrators. It’s over egging it for views.
Telegram clearly has much less users in the UK, but I don’t think it’s nearly as unknown generally as the article declares.
My issue with these points is not that they’re inaccurate, but that the article uses them in a sensationalist manner.
It’s poor journalism and it removes credibility.
I was living in SW London then, I even joined Twitter hoping to get news on local trouble more quickly. I did see a few very dodgy looking chaps hanging around in twos and threes but nothing happened.
Oh except a shop front glass got smashed over in New Malden high street. It was big news until the reports confirmed it was the owners had an accident.
It’s not like the old days when we could have a proper riot like in Brixton or Toxteth. Ah those were the days…