Immigration and asylum are not devolved. On 10 February 2023, the suspect in North Belfast caught the bus from Dublin to Belfast and claimed asylum. On 28 September 2023, he was granted leave to remain in the United Kingdom. On both dates, the Home Secretary was Suella Braverman, and the Immigration Minister, attending Cabinet, was Robert Jenrick. Reform UK, explain yourself.
There is no sign that this attack had any political motivation. Either way, though, the attacker will have been on drugs, undoubtedly at least including cannabis. The word “assassin” has the same root as “hashish”, the drug taken by the members of the Order of Assassins when they set out to murder the enemies of the Alamut state. Vickrum Digwa and his family belong to the Akali-Nihang warrior order within Sikhism. Many members of that order reject the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee’s 2001 ban on shaheedi degh, their traditional drink to aid meditation and, interestingly, to make them fiercer in battle. Interestingly, because its base is cannabis. And now, this.
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