Unworthy Tribute

Among the casualties of the London Bridge ram-and-stab attack five years ago was a Spanish immigrant who was fatally injured while using his skateboard to protect others. With superb British hypocrisy, he was posthumously decorated by the government which, had he survived, would have denounced him as a swarming health tourist and which, months before his death, was seriously considering naming and shaming his employer for employing him. Now the church of Bojaxhiu, Pacelli and Ratzinger is considering him for canonisation, presumably in hopes that some of the glamour will rub off. It's to be hoped that the skate parks and plazas which bear his name will help counter the unfortunate association.