Third Summer of Love? Illegal raves on the rise in UK

The entertainment-deprived young people of Britain are partying like it's 1989, flouting social distancing rules to attend illicit 'quarantine raves'

The aftermath of the 'quarantine rave' at Daisy Nook, Manchester © @GeorgiaDaisy98/Twitter

Thousands of Britons are believed to have attended illegal, non-socially distanced ‘quarantine raves’ on Friday and Saturday (12–13 June), prompting concerns of a spike in new Covid-19 infections.

In scenes that looked more like the late-80s heyday of acid house than the locked-down Britain of 2020, ravers defied restrictions on gatherings of more than six people to drink, dance and get far too close to one another at unlicensed parties in woodland near cities including Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, …

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