As the most famous person in the world, Taylor Swift is always in the news, with her fair share of lows among the many highs. But the last few weeks will have been particularly tough for the US singer, for especially tragic reasons.
First, there was a horrific knife attack in Southport, a town in the North West of England, at a dance workshop for young people themed around Swift’s music. It left three children dead and nine more injured, at the hands of a lone teenager. The attack horrified Swift, who posted a handwritten letter online saying it left her at a "complete loss for how to ever convey my sympathies to these families". Afterwards, it got worse. The Southport stabbings then indirectly led to a series of racist attacks on Britain’s streets, after misinformation about the culprit spread online. There were grim scenes of thuggish gangs targetting immigrants around the country, which now seem to have calmed.
