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“Tony from Hanwell” was weird from the get-go during the BBC Radio London Early Breakfast Show’s Wednesday discussion on the Hillsborough verdict. “Do you like my voice?” he asked relentlessly good-natured presenter Nikki Bedi. “Croaky…deep…baritone…” he continued. And creepy though this opening gambit was, it was by some distance the highpoint of his contribution. I once heard the phrase “my freedom to swing my arm ends just before the end of your nose.” I believe in an equivalent limit on freedom of speech and Tony exceeded that limit. “Everybody’s entitled to an opinion,” Bedi said when Tony left the...

Sometimes the right words can be so difficult to find. As the inquest into the Hillsborough disaster reached its damning verdict this morning, there was little happiness to be had in the understanding that, more than twenty-seven years after the event, it should even have been necessary to be poring over details of the unnecessary deaths of ninety-six innocent people after this amount of time. There was, however, also a degree of relief in knowing that, after everything that the families had been put through, they may finally be able to get a little peace and closure over the...