Media are biased in their reporting of events in the North

Once again, social media was awash with images of 12th of July bonfires adorned with the flags of the Republic, Gay Pride, Palestine, together with election banners of non-unionist parties.

Others showed lamp posts hung with Union Jacks and Nazi swastikas. Clearly written on one of the tricolours atop a bonfire was ‘We’re not racists – we just don’t want cotton-picking n****rs around here – Keep Antrim Tidy’. Another such depicted a Confederate flag hanging outside the home of a black family in East Belfast. These, for the most part, were at clearly identifiable locations and many of the images were taken from British or Northern papers.

One such, taken at Belfast’s Broadway roundabout, showed a group of masked men armed with clubs in front of a wall, depicting the slogan ‘Taigs will be crucified’.