Why So Many Knife Attacks?
I woke up this morning to news of an anti-migrant riot in Belfast, with organized groups of Northern Irish deliberately setting out to burn the homes of migrants : Protesters had been advised to dress in all-dark clothes, and to mask up: rather than hosting the carnival of livestreamers accompanying many such anti-migrant events in England and the Irish Republic, tonight was to be serious business. What violence there was, rather than aimlessly directed at the police, was to be coldly and carefully targeted against individual migrant homes. This is an intriguing development that deserves its own discussion, which I'll take up separately. But it comes in the context of a remarkable cluster of knife-attack news: The demonstrations in the UK following the conviction of Henry Nowak's Southampton murderer A homeless man slashed five people in New York's Penn Station on Sunday Decarlos Brown Jr, accused of stabbing Iryna Zarutska to death on a Charlo...