This country has always been racist and sexist and crap but the self-assurance, the comfort this man felt in singling out his targets: it's grim and frightening and I don't know how we fight it.

I didn't intervene because I would've escalated it and I don't want to get punched by a racist in Lidl. Caught up with the young women afterwards to check they were ok, give them a bit of context, assure them that there is no context where this was ok.

angrier. He does not explain what he is on about. He stomps off and they do that thing where you bluster with your mates and laugh something off as if it's nothing when you know it isn't.

candles and whether it is too soon for cheese. Two mins silence ends. Furious gammon descends on group of four young Black and brown women and screams at them for disrespectfully laughing during the two mins. He does not scream at anyone else. They don't know what he's on about. This makes him