I suppose we are trying to get our heads around why someone would do something like this, so they are trying to provide some context. It is on tv at the moment. Seems like he was ok at school but became violent as a young man. By finding out more about his background it might help put his actions into some kind of perspective. There is also plenty of coverage about the victims.
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I have just been reading a report saying that MI5 had long standing contact with people like Martin McGuinness and others who they saw to be “more reasonable” even from the early days of The Troubles. The security services called this contact “the back channel.”
The problem with using ‘the back channel’ is you are likely to get yourself a bit mucky from time to time.
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