England’s colours were everywhere – plastered on sweatshirts and painted over faces, fluttering from flags – and the mood was unmistakably joyful. The flipside of it, however, is the much tougher message Mahmood brought to Liverpool on Monday afternoon. The biggest challenge Mahmood now faces, one I have not seen before in my lifetime, is the shocking rise of ethnonationalism. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.