So how’d that go then? Letting Usman Kahn, convicted of terrorism charges, out of prison ‘under license’, wearing a digital tag, because he’d been ‘de-radicalised’? How’d that go?

I’ll tell you how it went; the obscene fucker stabbed 5 people, randomly, killing two of them, and then incurred the wrath of London. Or, more specifically, of Londoners. As he was attacked by 5 or 6 incredibly brave people who basically said to him: ‘you can just fuck off with your stupid violent ideology, we do not fear you or twenty people like you’. And they held him down, just long enough for the police to arrive and shoot him dead. Which I originally thought was a bit much, then I learned he was wearing a bogus suicide vest. And you only know its bogus when it doesn’t go off, so best not take chances.

Fleet Street lit up with police lights and we were deafened for about 10 minutes by sirens, bells and whistles as the emergency services sped to London Bridge. But we didn’t know that. All we know was it became really noisy and ‘something had happened’.

But how had it happened? How is it possible to misjudge a person so greatly as to imagine he’d been ‘cured’ of his radicalisation when in fact he was still the same fucked up scumbag he was when he entered prison all those years ago.

In the same way that if my freedom depended upon it, I could pass myself off, really convincingly, as a devoted and loyal Arsenal fan, shedding real tears when talking about Wenger, getting excited about Mezut Ozil at least one day in 30, expressing my incredible relief at the departure of Unai Emery. I could do it easy. I could pass the lies and no-one could see the join.

So how do these people think that they can not only ‘de-radicalise’, but also tell that the process has been a total success? The answer, as Usman Kahn has now proved, at a great fucking cost, is that you just can’t. There is no way.

The only surprising thing about the whole horrendous episode is that Jeremy Corbyn almost condemned the action, rather than the shooting, which is what I’d expected, after he’d lost a definite vote in the upcoming election. He didn’t even blame America for invading Afghanistan, our army for atrocities in Iraq or Israel, just for being there. As Ken Livingstone did after the 7/7 attacks.

What a fucked up world.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx