219: Manchester Arena: why we *should* look back in anger
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🗓️ 10 March 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the spike podcast I'm Tom Slater editor of |
| 0:03.4 | Spiked filling in for Fraser Myers this week I'm delighted to be joined in the |
| 0:07.2 | studio by spike columnist and my favorite legal commentator Luke |
| 0:10.4 | How you doing Luke? Thank you Tom, yeah very well. |
| 0:12.8 | And we're also delighted to be joined down the line by |
| 0:15.3 | spike columnist and my favorite expert on social cohesion, Rakib Hassan. |
| 0:18.9 | How you doing Rakib? |
| 0:19.6 | I'm doing, mate. |
| 0:21.2 | Coming up on the show, the Manchester Arena Inquiry the illegal migration bill and the fate of Gary |
| 0:26.8 | Linica. So last week we got the third and final installment of the Manchester |
| 0:36.4 | Arena inquiry into that awful atrocity that Islamist bombing back in |
| 0:41.3 | 2017 at the Manchester Arena. It's laid out a load of damning findings, particularly about the security services. It doesn't detail, but it points to failings, things not acted upon which could potentially, potentially have led to the attack |
| 0:56.5 | being foiled in one way shape or form. It also lays out various details of the |
| 1:02.3 | radicalization of the bomber, Salma Abadie and his brother Hashem Abadie, who aided him in that and is currently serving a life prison sentence for it. |
| 1:10.0 | But Rachib, just to kick things off, do you want to talk a little bit about some of the findings in the report, some of the lessons that were supposed to be learned? |
| 1:18.0 | Because it was pretty damning, wasn't it? |
| 1:19.0 | I think that the conclusions of the inquiry were devastating if truth be told especially for the |
| 1:27.5 | my five there was much talk about missed opportunities which could have helped to prevent this deadly terrorist attack taking place. |
| 1:40.0 | As we know, part of the inquiry, there were suggestions that political correctness |
| 1:46.7 | and racial sensitivities could have fed into security problems surrounding the Manchester Arena bombing. |
| 1:55.0 | So all in all I'd say that the inquiry, the findings were damning. |
| 2:00.0 | And I'd also say more generally, does tap into those wider conversations we have about people feeling fearful or being accused of being racist or Islamophobic when it comes to matters of security specifically |
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