Portsmouth sees second weekend of far-right anti-immigration protests with arrests

In Portsmouth, the arrival of a single boat carrying 140 asylum seekers has become the seed of something larger — a recurring confrontation between those who see borders as identity and those who see humanity as borderless. For two consecutive weekends, far-right demonstrators and counter-protesters have faced each other across police lines in the city centre, with three arrests made and new legal powers invoked to unmask participants. What unfolds here is not merely a local dispute but a mirror held up to a society still negotiating the terms of belonging.