Sad to read an article on the Guardian website today by Brendan Cox, whose MP wife, Jo, was murdered five years ago in her Batley constituency. He has now witnessed, along with the rest of the county, the murder of Sir David Amess, stabbed to death while holding a constituents’ surgery at a church in Leigh-on-Sea. Cox laments the polarisation of political discourse: our apparent inability to engage with those with whom we disagree, without the threat of violence. He writes about “the day-to-day brutality with which our political debate is conducted, from online abuse to increasingly regular death threats”. Democracy is a fragile flower; we need to take better care of it.
Licenced today: Burnley looking festive...
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