Proper writers should take responsibility for the pictures their words suggest

This column appears a couple of weeks behind events in the real world, so you have to imagine me sitting at the keyboard and still unable to cope with the reports following the suicide bomber Salman Abedi’s completion of his self-assigned mission in Manchester. Soon I’ll be getting close to the moment when I have to press send and transmit what I have to say.

One of the reasons for my slowness of composition is that, in a&nbs...say.