It’s September 11th, and I’ve been wondering about that phrase ‘post-9/11 world’. Politicians use it often in referring to how the world changed following the terrorist attacks 6 years ago. I wonder whether they think we all share the same understanding; or do they just want us to think that they share ours? How DID the world change after 9/11? What does that phrase ‘post-9/11 world’ mean to you?

As the British media frenzy continues about “dangerous foreign criminals” released from prison but not deported, I wonder what the furore says about us as a society. It seems to me to say something significant, because I haven’t heard a single news report about the “dangerous British criminals” who have also been released from prison after serving their time.