Is our society becoming less tolerant and more viscerally tribal? Or is our politics provoking people into committing more angry and desperate acts?
The harassment of BBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt in Whitehall this week by a group of anti-lockdown protestors recalled the ugly mood that descended on the environs of the Palace of Westminster during the Brexit stalemate of 2016-20.
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