Title: Spooky Action at a Distance

Author: Eve Leigh

Year: 2019

Geography: Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom

Synopsis: Spooky Action at a Distance takes place over a single day in January 2016 in south-east Kent, as tensions flare between fascist and anti-fascist demonstrators in Dover. Wendy heads to the protest carrying a brick, while anti-fascist activist Katie ends up in hospital with a head injury. As her friend Elliott talks to police, the complex and conflicting truths behind the day’s events begin to emerge, exposing the murky realities of anti-immigration sentiment in Britain.

Publication: Leigh, E. (2019). Spooky Action at a Distance. In Spooky Action at a Distance (pp. 1–47). London: Nick Hern Books.