How the Belfast attack played into the hands of Britain's far right

Police and politicians in Northern Ireland are making repeated calls for calm after a man was viciously stabbed in the street. (Reuters: Isabel Infantes)

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It's all so depressing familiar, particularly in Belfast, where these scenes are playing out after disturbing footage emerged of a man, identified by police as a Sudanese asylum seeker, attacking another man with a kitchen knife in the north of the city.