The protests and violence that followed an alleged rape that never happened were the result of far-right agitators galvanising fear on our streets, writes Alan Rusbridger . They are a worrying example of the march of UK populism E arlier this month a young woman appears to have bumped her head after a night out in the Surrey town of Epsom. In a confused state, she told police she thought she had been raped. It turned out she hadn’t. It took nine days for Surrey Police to come to the conclusion