Manchester – Don’t Look Back In Anger

Sean Mallory with some thoughts in the wake of the Manchester Massacre.

On Thursday in Manchester centre, the thousands who gathered for a silent vigil were interrupted by one woman when she began to sing Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis ... the crowd joined in.

An image has appeared on social media which depicts 'Love from Manchester' on a laser-guided Paveway bomb, written by an RAF crew seemingly at an RAF air base in Cyprus used in airstrikes against ISIS. The British Ministry of defence has confirmed its authenticity.

Take Robert Fisk:

Counterbalancing cruelty is no response, of course. Just a reminder ... why not pop into Manchester’s central library in St Peter’s Square and ask for Elsa Marsten’s The Compassionate Warrior or John Kiser’s Commander of the Faithful or, published just a few months ago, Mustapha Sherif’s L’Emir Abdelkader: Apotre de la fraternite? They are no antidotes for sorrow or mourning. But they prove that Isis does not represent Islam and that a Muslim can earn the honour of the world.