On a sad but positive note, let us remember and salute Bernard Kenny, the pensioner who fought the man who murdered Jo Cox, and was himself stabbed. According to the BBC he died peacefully today.
I believe that there are many more decent brave men and women like Bernard Kenny than there are empty, hate filled individuals like the one who murdered Jo Cox and like those we have seen in Charlottesville.
I realise it’s an anodyne sentiment, but we should devote more time acknowledging, recognising and praising the deeds of people like Bernard Kenny, because they are an important counterweight to the depressingly appalling actions of those in Charlottesville and elsewhere. It helps us to keep in perspective that those extremists and their apologists are only a tiny minority of rather pathetic and inadequate men.