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This morning the beeb interviewed a mother whose daughter I think was missing.

"Can you describe your feelings?"

they asked.

Some journo's really proving they can be the scum of the Earth today.
https://twitter.com/danhett

Do you mean the IRA smear? If so I think timing is coincidental, it was in the galleys before the Manchester news broke

It still makes them look like proper cunts though.

#maybebecausetheyare

Agreed

Do any of you luffguss meejia cunts have the email addresses for the various Telegraph editors? Feel like writing an email telling them how I feel about this.

Just wrap a turd in your business card and post it through their letterbox

^ 111 Buckingham Palace Rd. Opposite the Victoria pub.

Or report to Ofcom/IPSO

Edit: I see someone has suggested that in the tw@tter also

Ofcom and strongly worded (or scented) letters.

Just walked past corbyn doing a piece to camera outside Manchester town hall, very sombre mood, hopefully May won't make an appearance at tonight's vigil....

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For what it's worth I used to work at Manchester's sister arena at Leeds.

This sort of thing was very, very much thought about. We ran regular 'table top' exercises for this eventuality and had big meetings with the Police when the threat level and/or intelligence altered. Manchester Arena would have done exactly the same thing.

Same at Brighton Arena when I worked there.

Dan's a really nice guy, still no news about his brother, fingers crossed he's OK.

Terror level raised to critical.
Keep safe everyone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40023488

Here's Peston's summary:

"The threat level has been raised to critical by MI5's Counter-Terrorism Analysis Centre.
This means that security arrangements known as Temperer come into play, whereby the army take over from the police in guarding and protecting sensitive places, freeing up the police to be more visible and active on the streets.
Supposedly we the public will not notice the change, other than that the police will be more conspicuous.
The reason for the change is that the security services cannot be certain that the terrorist who committed the Manchester atrocity, Salman Abedi, was unconnected to a wider dangerous network of ISIS terrorists.
The upgrading of the terrorist risk assessment to the highest level has been announced by the prime minister, though the decision to do so was not taken by her or the COBRA committee she has just chaired."

Troops on the street right before an election.

That's been pretty much the norm in places like Rome and Paris for a while now. It's a strange sight. Unfortunately, it probably does fuck-all.

What does it say about the level of trust in our politicians when in spite of the horrific events in Manchester you cannot stop yourself thinking that Theresa May might be making some political capital from today's situation :(

The objective isn't always about safety. Its also designed to bolster public confidence. At times like this, that's important even to the skeptical and the cynical.
A decline in public confidence would have a domino effect on social cohesion, national productivity, national self worth, crime and disorder etc. It generally leads to a downward spiral. Its the sort of action we should expect, even if there weren't an impending election.

I'm not saying this is the best response but it certainly isn't the worst.

However we are in a situation where we have the Army on the streets without any members of parliament at all.

This isn't a political thing but it is extremely worrying. Armed forces without any political oversight apart from Cabinet.

Last time that happened was WWII if I remember correctly.

It happened at various times during The Troubles too.

In England?

Edit:

Sorry,that was a off the cuff comment. The Irish situation was a little different to what is happening now. Ongoing over many political administrations, and let's not forget the last Manchester bomb was an IRA one.

I'm probably not defending the behaviour discussed but how about bashing the terrorists instead of the journalists?

Journalists - reporting the truth, shining a spotlight on all that is bad in society, 'attacking the devil' as Sir Harry Evans put it.

Terrorists - blowing up innocent 8 year old girls at Ariana Grande concerts.

You might want to consider who's the best target for your vitriol.

Because terrorists behaving despicably is only to be expected (and the condemnation thereof, assumed).

Whereas, that some journalists could behave so despicably towards terrorists' victims isn't (and so needs expression).

Massive amounts of irony in you misquoting Harry Evans.