Bertrand Russell got caught up in some political fisticuffs (literal fisticuffs). Hustings in the Victorian era used to be riotously violent.
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Well, yes, Jo Cox - but actually that whole tweet is ludicrous. Remember the IRA?https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/959771428622135296 …
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And there was the Poll Tax riots. Violence surrounding the Miners Strike in the 1980s. There were violent anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in the late 1960s. And so on.
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It is true, however, that compared to most other European countries, the UK has been comparatively free of revolutionary violence and upheaval. 1688 was our last - and that was more or less peaceful.
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