To watch the UK in its present state from the vantage point of a holiday is a matter of shame: the images of crowds rampaging and threatening are on TV screens across the continent. The British state looks slow-footed, the police at the edge of control.
A lot of people, it seems, take joy in responding to the dreadful events of the past days after the horrifying Southport killings of three small girls by making the mood worse.
