The backlash against those exulting in Charlie Kirk’s murder and the multitudes who gathered in London on Saturday have unnerved the Left. To what extent though, has their own illiberal conduct fuelled this?

Very few people, I thought, would have disagreed that the cold-blooded murder of Charlie Kirk was an act of evil. The footage of this young American’s final moments will never not be shocking. Almost as ugly though, have been some reactions to his assassination.

These ranged from the infantile callousness of ‘violence begets violence’ to something much more inhuman and pitiless: the unalloyed glee with which many, many people greeted the news of his murder.

Nor was this the inchoate ramblings of a marginalised, white underclass, these being the sort of people that the new, regressive Left glory in baiting. They came from well-known authors, singers, academics, teachers, public sector officials and students. In seeking to justify their responses, many of them sought to portray Charlie Kirk as an online thug who had urged his followers to be violent towards gay and transgender people.

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A trawl through Mr Kirk’s podcasts, debates and speeches showed that he had said nothing of the sort. Indeed, he’d sought to convey his views about the reality of sex and the traditional Christian approach to the sacrament of marriage with clarity.

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