Manchester 追伸

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/23/theresa-may-condemns-sickening-cowardice-of-manchester-attack
The Guardian (元来は The Manchester Guardian)によると、容疑者捜査などは市の南側、まさしくＯくん在住の大学南側の住宅地区でおこなわれているらしい。このあたり、19世紀のブルジョワ住宅地は、ぼくが（大学から借りて）1982年夏に住んでいたころには、すでにムスリム・コミュニティに転じていました。

マンチェスタは『ガーディアン』紙にとって、大阪が『朝日新聞』にとって占めるのと同じで、1820年、発祥の地です。だから、今日の『ガーディアン』の社説は、こうです。

A bomb that strikes at the heart of Manchester’s civil life is something felt acutely at the Guardian. This is where the newspaper was founded, as the Manchester Guardian, almost 200 years ago, out of a distinctive Mancunian radical tradition, in the aftermath of the Peterloo massacre in 1819 when 15 people were killed in protests over parliamentary reform.
Throughout Manchester’s history, its people have campaigned for what they thought was right. It is a city that has never been afraid to challenge received wisdom; its capacity for innovation stretches from what may be the world’s first free public library and the first passenger railways, to the suffragette movement, vegetarianism and graphene. It is a special place, with a historic sense of confidence. It is a testament to the city that an attempt to divide a people only brought them closer together: doors were opened to strangers and meals offered to worried parents. Hotels and cabs provided services for free.
As one taxi driver put it: “We’re glue. We stick together when it counts.”

このリベラルな伝統をメイ内閣の時代にも維持できるか。正念場です。