Institute of Race Relations says violence in Southport and elsewhere often reduced to ‘mindless’ thuggery Institute of Race Relations says violence in Southport and elsewhere often reduced to ‘mindless’ thuggery The response to the 2024 riots in England and Northern Ireland failed to address its root causes and delinked the violence from racism, a thinktank has claimed. A paper by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) reported that an obfuscation of the causes and consequences of the riots