Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and I'm here in the Private Eye Office

with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Ian Heslop.

We have gathered here to discuss the big stories of the week and quite a lot of big stories actually going on this week.

We're going to be covering various bits of the BBC, various bits of what remains of the Conservative Party later on, but firstly we thought we'd talk about the riots,

which have been spreading across the UK in the last week or so.

For people who either live internationally or might need reminding what this is actually about.

This all started about a week ago with the murderer of three girls in Southport, the attempted

murder of eight others and two adults.

The alleged murderer was not named at the time due to being under the age of 18.

He has since been named and the judge who named him at Liverpool Crown Court said that

continuing to prevent the full reporting has the disadvantage of allowing others to spread

misinformation in a vacuum.

And how it has spread, there were rumors that the alleged murderer was a Muslim or was a recent

immigrant and this has in part led to enormous amounts of

disorder and unrest in various places around the UK, places very far from

Southport, you know, all the shot,

Hartley Pool, I mean just all over the place,

and huge amounts of stress and unpleasantness and policing.

How did this misinformation spread,

I suppose there's one thing that we're interested in

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