I would like to register my absolute horror at this story, which has been emerging all day from the states. A gunman has killed fifty people at a gay nightclub in Orlando. While it is too early to be certain of the motive, people are saying it’s a homophobic attack. If that is the case, it’s truly appalling: how can anyone cause so much suffering just because they dislike other peoples’ sexuality. The fact that such things can still go on anywhere in the world, after so much effort has been put into trying to educate people into abandoning such outdated views, is one of the saddest things about this.