“The end-point of which is the depraved, low-tech murderous assault in which violence is not so much a means as an end in itself… and in which the border between the “political” and the “mentally disturbed” becomes almost impossible to discern.” My Observer column https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/26/nihilistic-rage-behind-terrorism-menace-of-our-age-southport-killings
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I think you might be a bit unfair to the ‘authorities’; in very different circumstances I’ve had cases which didn’t meet their threshold for action (due to resource limits). There isn’t the capacity to treat all who are flagged as a risk.
But, absent church, family, trade unions, steady work, social and sports clubs, how do you fill in those "cracks"?