May I have a word about… why it’s a bloodbath on the streets | Jonathan Bouquet

Being on the front line of the pandemic is one thing, but must we really endure so much sanguinary imagery?I’ve already had cause to deplore the more purple-inked brethren of my trade for their hyperbolic use of the word carnage (which sadly shows no signs of abating - witness the following recent examples: “Carnage as cuts begin at HSBC in Paris”; “Leicester residents defy lockdown to cause ‘carnage’ in nearby town”), but now they have reloaded their pe