As moving as Manchester Together was, let’s not just trust in ‘hope’, let’s give our security services every penny they need
And let's not treat the dead as if they were claimed by some natural disaster we are powerless to prevent
Truth on terror
IT’S not enough merely to remember the victims of the Manchester bombing, as moving as yesterday’s ceremony was.
We must remember who killed them, why, and do whatever it takes to prevent a repeat.
The minute’s silence was beautifully observed nationwide. It is upliftingthat Britain unites after such atrocities.
But let’s not treat the dead as if they were claimed by some natural disaster we are powerless to prevent. Let’s not just put our trust in “hope”.
They were massacred by an Islamist extremist radicalised by the UK’s largest jihadist network. Up to 25,000 live among us, with 3,000 a direct threat and 500 under constant surveillance.
Yes, we should mourn. But let us also resolve to give our security services every penny they need to keep us safe.
Let us lock away terror plotters for decades. Let us stop known terrorists who are still abroad returning home.
Let us force social media giants to silence those who incite terror.
Let us maintain effective anti-radicalisation programmes such as Prevent, even as the Left undermines them.
And let us stop pretending our greatest threat is Islamophobia, instead of a warped interpretation of Islam that justifies slaughtering innocents at pop concerts.
A loss of plot
MARK Carney demeans his role as Bank of England chief by churning out fantasy figures to bash Brexit.
His claim that it has cost every family £900 a year is based on the Bank’s own back-of-a-fag-packet estimate in 2016 of how well we’d do if we voted Remain.
Given how hopeless its other Project Fear predictions proved, the margin for error must be 100 per cent.
Besides, it is not Brexit itself holding back growth. It’s the uncertainty caused by Remain diehards in the Commons and Lords bent on scuppering it and even destroying our Government.
It is destabilising for firms not to know what Brexit will look like. If Theresa May formed a position fully honouring the result, and told the EU to like it or lump it, the unease would end overnight.
Our economy would take off like a rocket.
Rape disgrace
IT is disgraceful that Google is revealing rape victims’ names via the “autocomplete” function on its searches. The tech giant must be held accountable.
But its software only produces those identities because troublemakers or morons have posted them illegally on Facebook, Twitter or other forums.
They must be traced and fined heavily. So must those social media firms. They provide the platforms — and are negligent about policing them.
Treat them as publishers and make them responsible for content they host.
They’ll soon clean up their act.