Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. Isn’t that what they say? Well how about ‘even if you’re not paranoid, they’re still gonna fucking get you’.

I’m the least paranoid person around. The original ‘things’ll work out just fiiiiiine’. Like Scarlett O’hara with ‘there’s always tomorrow’, I have ultimate faith that the natural way of things is to improve. Maybe I’m just an ostrich, burying my head in the sand to avoid unpleasantness. Maybe just hoping things will improve can cause it to happen. Or maybe I’m a lazy bastard who’d rather wait than take action.

But even I can feel this really horrible escalation of horribleness picking up momentum round the world. But especially my world. Because London does seem to be ‘shit central’ at the moment, doesn’t it? And it continues to hit the proverbial fan.

First we had the jihadi attack on Westminster Bridge. Then we had the terrible bombing in Manchester at the pop concert. Next was London Bridge, more Islamists, followed by last week’s horrendous fire in Kensington, not an act of terrorism, unless you count ignorance, neglect and irresponsibility as a form of ‘terrorism by local council’. And then Monday’s mosque attack. By a radicalised Welshman. Which is odd indeed but an act of terrorism by any definition.

And its the definition that has caused the trouble. Because it was immediately labelled as ‘right-wing terrorism’. As if any act of horror or murder has to have a political agenda with it. Otherwise our esteemed press can’t handle it. Don’t know which group to attack, can’t put it in a pigeon hole. Have to allocate it to the right department. Right wing? Left wing? Jihadi? IRA? There is currently no terrorist department for Unbalanced Welsh People. Well, there will be by now, but on Monday there wasn’t. So they called him ‘right wing’ on the basis that most attacks on immigrant populations are carried out by right wing extremists. But not this time.

Darren Osborne went to the pub, got drunk because he’d just split up from his partner, was thrown out of the pub for saying he hated Muslims and fell asleep in his white van. All perfectly normal behaviour in Wales so far. But he’d had mental issues before (big surprise there) and when he awoke, he drove his van 150 miles to Finsbury Park and drove it at the people leaving the mosque. His original target may have been me. I don’t know. I’m not paranoid. But the satnav could have been off and he ends up 4 miles away in Finsbury Park. Maybe he’s an Arsenal fan, they love Finsbury Park, even have their own shop there, and more terrorists and murderers support Arsenal than any other premiership club. Fact. Don’t they have mosques in Wales? Because it cost 30 quid’s worth of petrol to come to London and what about the resulting pollution?

This man indeed committed a terrorist act. But because he was a seriously unbalanced dude. Had a ‘bad day at the office’. Really bad day. Which brought out his inner racist. But ‘right wing’? I don’t think so. Just a very confused man with mental health problems.

Note to all terrorists: GO AWAY!!!!

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx