Two tragedies, one weekend, two tales of woe
Two things happened this weekend. I think both could be classed as tragic, but both for entirely different reasons. I don't want the reader to think in any way that I am trying to compare the two events, but I think they are worthy of a sort of news round up, which is the only reason they appear in the same blog. I will start with the events in Norway. My heart goes out to the people, it really does. At present we know of 93 deaths at the hand of Anders Behring Breivik. For those who do not know he is a right wing extremist who was unhappy with the ruling party's immigration policy. This led him to plan an attack over several years where he planted a bomb to kill several ministers of parliament and shootings on the island of Utøya where the ruling party had a summer camp for teenagers. The most tragic aspect is of course that so many young people were involved in the events. Breivik claims that what he did was disturbing but necessary to...