We are quick to label the Reading attack terrorism – but there is little benefit in doing so | Simon Jenkins

In the current climate of fear, this horrific tragedy will be sucked into existing narratives. Let’s look at what we actually know

Nothing is yet known of any possible motives of the man arrested in connection with the Reading triple killing. The suspect, 25-year-old Khairi Saadallah, appears in various reports to be a gregarious figure, a Christian convert and regarded by friends as “essentially British”.

It seems this man had no link to any terror activity or network. He was never on the list of...