More than 100,000 anti-immigrant protesters marched through the streets of central London, clashing with police and injuring at least 26 officers in one of Britain’s largest far-right demonstrations in its history. The march was organized by the anti-immigrant activist Tommy Robinson and featured far-right politicians from Germany and France as speakers. Elon Musk also spoke virtually to the crowd, saying, “We must have revolutionary government change.” Several speakers paid tribute to Charlie Kirk.
At the rally, the “Stand Up to Racism” campaign organized a counterprotest, attracting 5,000 people. A teacher at the counterprotest, speaking to Reuters, said, “The idea of hate is dividing us, and I think the more that we welcome people, the stronger we are as a country.”
Elon Musk is also in the news today after his satellite internet service Starlink suffered a global outage today impacting tens of thousands, including the Ukrainian military.