The Spectator magazine is home to wonderful writing, insightful analysis, and unrival books and arts reviews.

Subscribe today for just 12 pounds and receive a 12 week subscription in print and online.

Alongside that, you get a 20 pound John Lewis or waitress voucher.

Go to Spectator.co. UK. forward slash voucher.

Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Oscar Edmondson and I'm joined today by Katie Balls and Ian H.son, Senior

Advisor at the Counter Extremism Project.

So Kiastam will be chairing his first COBRA meeting today as the government tries to grapple

with the rioting that's broken out across the country after the tragic stabbings in Southport. The weekend saw

numerous examples of violence including some aimed at hotels thought to be

hosting asylum seekers. And we had a new statement from the Prime Minister which we can hear now.

Be in no doubt those that have participated in this violence will face the full force of the law.

The police will be making arrests, individuals will be held on

remand, charges will follow and convictions will follow. I guarantee you will regret taking part in this

disorder whether directly or those whipping up this action online and then running away themselves.

This is not protest. It is organized violent thuggery.

So Ian, is the government getting a grip of this? Well the

government must get grips with this and there has to be a decisive response from

the state because the violence is completely unacceptable, it's totally

unjustifiable, it ought to be condemned without any equivocation or context.

Now is not the time for doing that.

I suppose in terms of the logistics Oscar it's going to be an

...