The recent riots in the UK, marked by a surge of white nationalist violence and targeted attacks on minority communities, are a stark warning of how quickly societal fault lines can fracture into chaos.

While Singapore may seem worlds apart from these tensions, the underlying forces that fuelled these riots – racism, extremism, populism and deep-seated xenophobia – are universal dangers that we cannot afford to ignore.

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Mathew Mathews is head of the Social Lab and principal research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore. Melvin Tay is a research aassociate at the same institute.

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