During the last forty-eight hours the news has been dominated by reports of a random, cowardly, ill-conceived and deplorable attack on members of the Muslim community of Finsbury Park, London. The attack appears to have been carried out by a man who has no previous history of racist or Islamophobic behaviour; who has no history of membership of so-called ‘far-right’ groups or political parties; who has according to the police, ‘no far-right digital footprint’; and who was…

By Max Musson: Most of us will at some time or another have watched a horror film that depicts some sort of ‘zombie apocalypse’, in which ‘zombies’, once dead humans who have been transformed by a plague or virus into crazy flesh-eating beings, rise from the dead and launch a frenzied cannibalistic attack upon the rest of humanity. Examples of this genre of horror fiction include George A. Romero’s 1968 film ‘Night of the Living…