Cousin Pádraig from the cadet branch of the family tipped me off to this interesting little video.

It features, among others, Salma Yaqoob and Paddy Hill, reflecting on the similarities of both the mass response and that of the state to the Muslim and Irish communities after the Birmingham and London bombs.

Paddy’s defiance and righteous hatred outside the Old Bailey remains a powerful moment and it’s one of those things it’s impossible to see too often.

The two simple lessons are that always and everywhere it’s wrong to plant bombs where there are large numbers of ordinary people. The second is that the state is always willing to criminalise an entire religious or ethnic group. The recent campaign against the CCTV cameras in Birmingham reminds us of that.