For the time of writing this piece, I am currently on my way home from a shopping centre .. the Trafford centre. It’s a place that has always had a place in my heart for good memories and just a nice feeling when I walk around, even if I don’t buy anything.
On the day of writing this (7th January 2021) I awoke to news of an attempted coup in America. That is literally the only word for it because that is what it was. Right wing Trump supporters stormed the capital to try and overturn the election result. A result that was decided by the people of America. It was democratic, it was fair and was done as other elections have been over the years, and yet, because they didn’t get the result they wanted, they rioted, primed and backed by Trump himself. It was heart-breaking to watch. Absolutely heart-breaking to see that instead of airing their frustrations in the correct societal way that almost every other country does, they decided to resort to violence, and it was literally an attempted coup.
