yep social media is certainly a two edged sword. Without it though we would have the left wing media/academics silencing any challenge or debate on their religous and irreligous doctrines. The planned parenthood butchers would not be exposed, the press would get free reign to dumb down even more with the gw scam and Islamic immigration would continue until free speach is completely gone. You have an oppostion leader here in Austrlia who demonises anyone agreeing to have a demoncratic vote as homophobic. So its seems ok for pollies to demonise people with opposing views as homophobic, racist or sexist. They have no voice except social media. Our PM is no different from the opposition leader.

Alan, Julian.
I guarantee both of you that this had nothing to do with Brexit, knowing the way these "lone wolves" think it'll be a plan cooked up by an unstable mind fed on internet conspiracy theories and rationalised by personal grievances.
What's not been widely publicised is that Tommy Mair, the night before the attack had contacted a local mental health service asking for help and had been turned away, maybe that was the last straw as far as he was concerned?

J.O.M. I bow to your obvious expertise and superior knowledge in the area of lone wolf nut jobs acting out personal grievance?

It's a pity he couldn't have limited that solely to punching bag that one can literally destroy with trained rapid fire punches that have all your bodyweight and anger behind every successive blow.

Not someone's daughter, wife and mother! Make every excuse you can think of? None of which will ever be good enough or justify this act of abominable extreme cowardice

I don't believe there's any place in civil society for this nut job or his sympathisers, fellow travelers and apologists, who should spend the remaining term of any natural life in an asylum for the mentally deranged! And likely in good company!
Alan B.

Re Alan B, I think it would be cowardly to tone down debate because otherwise a murderous lunatic somewhere might get fired up. That said, "debate" based not on rationality but on dishonest labelling is a bad thing not because it stirs up lunatics but because it dumbs the process down. Like "this is rubbish because it is what the Libs would say", or "this is rubbish because it is what labor and the greens say" - ring any bells?. Friends in the UK have just sent me a copy of a leaflet circulating that decries an argument because it was what Farage was saying and we all know Farage is bad news. (From the little I know about Farage I rather like him!)

I have yet to see any comparison with the man who murdered the Dutch film director and caused Hirsi Ali MP to flee Holland. Same meat different gravy and yet the labour MP is about to be canonised but the muslim ignored.
Please explain?

Most people can control themselves, no matter how noisy the media etc, become, but there will always be a small minority of nutters who can be pushed over the edge.

Afraid this article seems more about muddying the waters just in case someone thought that those who leverged white nativists angst and hysteria maybe responsible for creating a bit of hatred? What does Cliff Richard have to do with Joe Cox and racist assassins (left/right is irrelevant)?

Recently, purely coincidental, in the US where most of this white nativist propaganda emerges a Washington consultancy warned of the links between KKK - John Tanton - Trump:

'The authors of a newly re-issued report claim that many Americans wonder at Donald Trump's meteoric and improbable rise to the top. They need wonder no more, they say. In a newly re-released report, "From Know-Nothings to KKK to Tanton to Trump,” Rick Swartz and Jocelyn McCalla expose the groups they say fuel Donald Trump’s un-American and demagogic immigration proposals and rhetoric.....'

http://www.prweb.com/releases/know-nothings-to-trump/05/prweb13422623.htm

That man Tanton again.....

Of course it's another coincidence that the assassin of Cox was influenced by far or alt right racist ideology, according to SPLC Southern Povery Law Center, who know John Tanton well. Tanton has groups in the UK and also an admirer of the 'white Australia' policy and 'eugenics':

'John Tanton is the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement. He created a network of organizations – the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA – that have profoundly shaped the immigration debate in the United States.'

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/john-tanton

However, it's only when you go their shared literature or beliefs, philosphies and ideology do the similarities become disturbing, whether it's Anders Breivik, ISIL or white nativists; pessimistic, dystopian and apocalyptic view of the future.

Anyone who believes they are good conservative and/or christian should run a mile from this crazy nativist agitprop .....