I've got to say that I don't really understand the seeming absence of the police last night in Brum, at least when things started to get ugly.
It can't be easy when you're clearly outnumbered, but letting them get near the pub seems like a real failure to me. It's an obvious flashpoint.
It all plays straight into the hands of the far right lunatics, does this. The police need to make some arrests, and quickly, in Birmingham.
To be clear though, none of this justifies what went on over the weekend, or the further threats from the far right. It was criminal thugs that started this, and scummy twats from both sides that seem to want to keep it going.
We need to lock up as many of them as possible and really start doing something aggressive about social media.
We're way beyond free speech now on Twitter and Facebook. There's deliberate misinformation and incitement to criminal activity going on right in front of our eyes.
We need to eliminate the weedy defence of, we're trying our best, and start making the company and their executives legally responsible, in the same way that newspapers are.
When we start to see a few of the top people at Facebook and Twitter facing courts and jail time, we'll start seeing them take the problem seriously.