A MAP OF REPORTING.
NOT A MAP OF VERIFIED EVENTS.
UK Riot Map gathers public news reports of riots, violent disorder, clashes with police, arson, looting and protest arrests in the United Kingdom, and places them on a map by the town or city they name.
Where the reports come from
Every five minutes the site reads the public RSS feeds of more than thirty national and regional UK publishers, including the BBC, Sky News, The Guardian, The Telegraph and local titles across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus several UK-edition Google News searches. Each card links to the original article on the publisher's own site; we show the headline, the publisher's short summary and, where the publisher provides one, its thumbnail image.
How reports are checked
Keyword rules first pick out reports that mention disorder. An AI model (Anthropic's Claude Haiku) then reads each candidate's headline and summary and decides whether it describes actual disorder in the UK, rather than sport, opinion, predictions, foreign events or anniversaries, and which UK town or city it concerns. Only reports it confirms appear on the map and in the feed. The “Why included?” note on each card explains the match.
This is automated, and it can be wrong. A report on the map means a publisher reported something, not that we have verified it. Arrests and charges are allegations, not convictions. Several outlets often cover one event, so article counts are not incident counts.
Political view ratings
Cards show the publishing outlet's overall political position on a left–centre–right scale. Where possible this comes from published assessments such as AllSides and Media Bias/Fact Check, named in the scale's tooltip. For outlets those services do not cover, the scale shows an AI estimate, labelled as such. Ratings describe an outlet's general editorial stance, never an individual article or its accuracy.
Data pages
The small boat crossings and migration statistics pages present official Home Office and ONS figures with their dates, definitions and source links.
Something wrong?
If a report is mapped to the wrong place, is not about UK disorder, or a political rating looks wrong, tell us with the form below and we will review it. Publishers who want their content removed can use the same form.
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