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Rod Liddle

We condemned the ideology behind Christchurch. Why didn’t we do the same after Sri Lanka?

27 April 2019

9:00 AM

27 April 2019

9:00 AM

The carnage in Sri Lanka which left more than 300 dead may have been carried out by ‘Buddhists’, according to the BBC Today presenter Nick Robinson on the morning after those hideous bombings. We all grope slowly towards meaning, don’t we? We look for precedent, we search for clues. I did both when I heard of the murders and came to a different conclusion to Nick.

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