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In a country where the newspapers campaigned for a mandatory 5 year sentence for carrying an illegal firearm, whilst simultaneously campaigning for the immediate release of a farmer who'd used one to kill a child. Tribalism again: those nasty mainly ethnic minority ruffians should be locked away; that nice white middle aged landowner is a hero. Those brutal terrorists should be locked away; how ludicrous that a soldier should be up before the court for shooting an innocent civilian - we are at war, after all. And so on. We are steadfast, they are fanatical; we use lethal force, they are murdering dogs.

Socrates argued that no one knowingly does wrong. I interpret this as meaning that everyone does what he thinks to be right in his particular circumstances. If only we could break the taboo and consider what is in the mind of the Bad Guys, we might better understand how to stop them wanting to kill us.

Spike Milligan wrote to the effect: "We've got the enemy fooled: they think we're the enemy! Hah! the perfect disguise."

It's the same the whole world over, ain't it all a blooming shame?