I check the latest news every morning when I wake up. Force of habit.

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I don’t always stick with it though. If I’m on holiday or it’s someone else’s moment I’m good at looking away and getting on with whatever I have in hand.

When I awoke to the October 7th attacks in 2023 and began absorbing what that murderous series of events amounted to I knew in my bones the world had arrived at one of those hinge points we’ve seen before in history. Pearl Harbour, The German invasion of Poland, Dresden, Hiroshima, 9/11. All different.

All defining. All consuming at the time.

I won’t labour every detail and opinion since that awful morning in 2023. You’ll have seen it and heard it. You’ll have your view on it and what followed on from it. You’ll have suffered the never ending aftershocks.

The latest aftershock is the stabbing of two Jewish men in the streets of Golders Green in North West London on Wednesday morning. A man armed with a knife........

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