The far right feels comfortable openly saying the most racist, extreme things imaginable and harassing left events in ways unseen in living memory — we desperately need an anti-fascist Labour Party to replace the current appeasement regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY

WHEN the Glasgow School of Art was destroyed by its second massive blaze in four years, Adrian Nairn heard a bang on the door. The emergency services told him and his elderly mother to pack up quick, for their Dalhousie Street flat was in the middle of the danger zone.
Now, six weeks after the inferno, the self-employed harp maker has yet to regain access to his home for even a few minutes. Last weekend he made headlines across the Scottish papers when he was — once again — threatened with arrest for attempting to push down a barricade.
When I caught up with Nairn yesterday, he argued that it was the police — and not him — on dubious legal ground. “We’re actually disputing the legality of the cordon,” he said.

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