Isn’t it odd that, amid all the carnage of Paris, the authorities just happen to find a passport which they somehow know belonged to one of the attackers? And isn’t it odd that, in a time of savage cuts to every other public department, the Tories find the cash for a massive boost to security services? I try to be cautious when it comes to conspiracy theories; they are often huge accusations, and huge accusations require huge amounts of evidence. I also think it’s too easy to make such theories up, and that people will do so whatever happens. Take, for instance, the world trade centre: people cite the fact they collapsed as they dd as evidence the attacks were an inside job. But had they stayed up and not fallen, the same people would probably now be claiming that the fact the did not collapse as evidence of a conspiracy. (”How convenient” they would now be saying, sarcastically. ”They were too important to loose altogether!”) Yet in the case of paris, there are one or two facts which, at the moment, don’t stack up. The timing is also perfect – we were due one of our regular shots of fear and paranoia; I daresay the arms manufacturers and generals were starting to pester. I realise a lot of people died in this sickening act, but one or two thing about it strike me as odd.