Know your terror designations:
Painting a plane: Terror
Burning a bus: Not terror
Breaking windows at an arms factory: Terror
Breaking windows while race rioting through a local community: Not terror
Publicly supporting certain anti-genocide activists: Terror
Calling to burn mosques: Not terror.
pretty sure the author is a crypto white nationalist in the david frum vein: we need all the goals of the far right to be fulfilled, just not by the uncouth types that are actually in it
But of course, that's all irrelevant, since a Sunday Times columnist is divining what an unspecified 'people' 'feel' through haruspicy or some other method of sympathetic magic, then acting as a powerful conduit to express the 'feelings' of the 'people'. He's laundering his own beliefs
Nothing excludes these set of statements being possibly held, because people believe all sorts of false, silly and incoherent things. It's possible (1) people feel the sun hates them, (2) we should mitigate the sun's hate by sacrificing children in the brazen bull, (2) this will work out just fine
So someone chalked "Trans rights are human rights" on a statue and the government and media lost their sh&&.
A mob goes hunting immigrants door to door, setting their houses and cars on fire, and the PM dithers.
Starmer reacts harshly when he doesn't like something. He isn't atm.
