Many questions demand urgent answers after the horrific shooting spree in Plymouth, with a three-year-old girl among the innocent victims.
First must be how gunman Jake Davison was able to go on such a murderous rampage.
How and why was the 22-year-old apprentice crane driver a licensed gun owner?
Why was his gun licence, once taken away by police, returned to him so easily?
And we must consider, too, how much the defence and security company employee was influenced via the internet by US right-wing fanatics who treat women with contempt and prey on troubled, vulnerable men.
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The Donald Trump quote Davison used and references to America’s toxic misogynists, sound alarm bells that must be heard.
It is up to Britain to make sure the tragic, unbelievably cruel loss of lives will not be repeated in other communities.
As we weep and honour the victims, let us ask the questions and act on the answers.
Tragic failure
The return of British and US troops to Afghanistan to evacuate nationals is a huge admission of failure.
Even 20 years of military intervention – at a cost of thousands of lives – along with support for a democratically elected Government in Kabul have failed to neuter the barbarous Taliban, which is now resurgent.
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The horrors we are witnessing are a humanitarian and foreign policy disaster.
Slashing international aid to Afghanistan must now be unthinkable.
The nation’s decent people need and deserve our support now more than ever.
Adam Feety
Double Olympic gold swimmer Adam Peaty is taking another huge plunge by agreeing to take part in Strictly.
Even an outstanding athlete who triumphed at two Olympics in a row could find himself out of his depth on telly’s most demanding dance floor. We wish him luck!
