What is it – nostalgia for a less complicated yesterday? A rush of blood to the head? Or maybe just pure bloody racism. Whatever the answer, the incident on the Paris underground where a black man was repeatedly ejected from a train carriage leaves many of us, I suggest, weak with disgust. “Our captain is […]
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Thoughts on the Paris assault
When a dramatic and bloody event occurs such as the killings in Paris of twelve people today, the general reaction is to see it as a single event, mindless and devoid of motivation. It’s also been my experience that for someone to suggest that the event has other dimensions besides a mindless and murderous assault is […]