The media also tried hard not to address what had happened. The day after Lee Rigby was murdered on the streets of London by two Koran-quoting converts, Britain’s Daily Telegraph – the main broadsheet of the centre-right – took the Cameron line. One columnist claimed that ‘The man with the bloodied knife who spoke into a video camera at Woolwich had no discernible agenda … none of it made sense.’6 Another writer at the same paper wrote, ‘For me, yesterday’s barbaric act of terror in Woolwich was literally senseless. None of what happened actually made any sense … There were knives and helicopters and guns and bodies. It just didn’t make any sense.’ There followed a long list of things that had happened at the scene which the author claimed also made no sense. ‘He’d said “our lands”. But he had a south-east London accent. And that didn’t make any sense … None of it made any sense. None of it.’ The author grandiosely concluded that, ‘Yesterday was the senseless day.’7 At the other end of the political spectrum political commentary in The Guardian suggested that what had happened was simply ‘a mundane act of violence’.8