Charlie Kirk was thirty-one when he was shot and killed at a university campus in Utah. You can disagree with his worldview or legacy, but he never used force to get what he wanted. He went campus to campus speaking, challenging opponents, arguing, converting young people to his cherished worldview.

Just so that you know, this piece is not about him. As is the case with most right-wing activists, he was a polarising figure in American politics, and I can live with that difference of opinion. However, there are certain patterns that have emerged in recent days. We need to talk about them. Charlie's assassination was one of them.

I would not have even heard about it for days given my mother's sudden death in Dubai and, for some strange reason, my struggle to get a visa to attend her funera

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