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The Uses of Innocence: Terror, Surveillance and the Manchester Attack
The Manchester attack has widely been framed as an attack on innocence. But rather than protecting children, the government’s response to the bombing smacks of a cynical attempt to weaponise the victims' innocence for the purposes of racist nation-building.