Along England's southern coastline, where the Channel has long served as both boundary and passage, masked demonstrators brought ferry traffic to a standstill at Dover and Portsmouth in response to migrant arrivals from France. The protests — organized in part by far-right groups and condemned by senior government officials as 'thuggish' — laid bare a tension that democratic societies have long struggled to resolve: the distance between the right to dissent and the manner in which that dissent is expressed. Britain's Labour government, pointing to a 43 percent drop in Channel crossings this ye
UK condemns 'thuggish' anti-migrant protests blocking ports
Approximately 140 migrants arrived by boat from France; no casualties or injuries reported in the protests.