Epping: A very English uprising
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Over the summer, Epping, a small town on the outskirts of London became the scene of mass protests. featuring hundreds of people. Noisy and occasionally violent, the demonstrations attracted crowds from around the country and plenty of media attention.
But what really happened in Epping and what does it tell us about where the right in Britain is heading?
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| 0:00.0 | The Observer. |
| 0:09.6 | Hello, it's Matt, and you're listening to the slow newscast from The Observer. |
| 0:14.2 | This week, an uprising in Essex. |
| 0:18.0 | Over the summer, Epping, a small town on the outskirts of London, became the scene of mass |
| 0:23.2 | protests featuring hundreds of people. Noisy and occasionally violent, the demonstrations attracted |
| 0:29.5 | crowds from around the country and plenty of media attention. But what really happened |
| 0:34.5 | in Epping and what does it tell us about where reform and the right are heading? |
| 0:40.3 | Reporter Innes Bowen has been investigating. |
| 0:48.5 | My hometown of Epping was at the centre of a media storm this summer. |
| 0:53.8 | This is Adam Brooks. I'm at the migrant hotel in Epping, the Bell. |
| 0:57.6 | And there is a protest because a migrant is... |
| 1:01.3 | Bell Hotel on the outskirts of the town |
| 1:03.4 | have been used to house 130 undocumented main asylum seekers. |
| 1:09.0 | I'd barely noticed them until this summer. |
| 1:12.6 | And there is a protest |
| 1:13.7 | because a migrant is alleged |
| 1:16.4 | and was charged with sexual assaults |
| 1:18.5 | against a young girl in Epin High Road. |
| 1:20.1 | Hadash Kabatu had been living at the hotel |
| 1:22.6 | when he was arrested for sexually |
| 1:24.6 | assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl. |
| 1:28.6 | Suddenly, the crowds flared up. |
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