By Max Musson: Shortly after being sentenced to 18 months imprisonment today, at St. Albans Crown Court, thirty-one year old Stephen Yaxley Lennon, otherwise known as Tommy Robinson, the former leader and co-founder of the English Defence League (EDL) is reported to have Tweeted to his followers, “This is a complete stitch up”. Robinson, who last October shocked EDL supporters by resigning from the organisation amid concerns over the “dangers of far-right extremism”, had appeared…

By Max Musson: It all began in March 2009 when two groups composed of about a dozen members each of the Muslim fundamentalist group ‘Al-Muhajiroun’ protested noisily in Luton at the homecoming parade of the Royal Anglian Regiment. As the troops marched through the town centre, police hurriedly intervened to prevent violence breaking out between angry White residents and Muslim demonstrators holding placards denouncing the soldiers as ‘war criminals’ and ‘murderers’. A direct consequence of…