Monday, December 22, 2025

'Abusing Muslims Is Not Going to Fix This Country': Rising Hate in the UK

Dec 22, 2025 | Hate crimes are rising around the UK, after a summer of flags going up on lamp-posts across the country and racist riots in 2024.

Taj Ali is a Muslim journalist who has been collating evidence of these attacks. Even in big diverse areas there is a sense of fear, but what is life like for smaller ethnic minority communities in smaller towns?

On his journey with video producers Christopher Cherry and Maeve Shearlaw he finds a sense of anger about the loss of community but people everywhere determined to roll up their sleeves and make things better.