BY OWEN MATTHEWS
MANCHESTER
ORLANDO, Nice, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Würzburg, Ansbach, Munich, London—and now Manchester. The pattern is becoming depressingly familiar. The news breaks with blurry cellphone footage—pedestrians strolling on a seaside promenade, shoppers enjoying a Christmas market, excited kids leaving a pop concert. Then come the gunshots, a rampaging truck or the jolting explosion— followed by panic, people running, inert bodies. Within the hour, politicians are on the air with a litany of condemnations and condolences.