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When is a terrorist killer actually a terrorist who has just happened also to kill? When the authorities say so, obviously.

The man charged with stabbing to death three young children in Southport was making ricin and reading terrorist manuals beforehand, a court has just heard. But the British authorities still insist the Southport stabbings were not terrorism. Okey dokey, then. Let’s take this a step at a time so we can get our thick heads around it.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, was on October 30 charged with manufacturing the biological toxin ricin and having a terrorist manual in his home—namely Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants: The Al-Qaeda Training Manual.

He was earlier, much earlier, on August 1, charged with the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, aged 9, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Bebe King, 6, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on July 29, as well as ten attempted murders and possession of a knife.

So, you know, the murder charges were first, then three months later came the terrorist charges. And if you remember, after the stabbings, people rioted on the streets in a state of absolute hysteria born out of a belief that these stabbings were very much terror-related, and they were told they were wrong.

I mean, if you were jumping to what you personally don’t feel are raving-mad conclusions you might say that all those people rioting after those horrific stabbings have now been proved to have had some kind of valid point in being so upset and afraid and hysterical, even if what some of them did was not entirely correct and even if you feel that if some rioters broke the law then that is not to be condoned, and so on and so forth.

Thankfully, we have been set straight. No, the rioters did not have a point, as was said at the time. Absolutely not.

The British authorities have stated again that the Southport stabbings are not considered terror-related “at this time,” even though the killer read a jihad manual and made ricin and was more than a bit interested in al-Qaeda, according to what police found in his home.

Are you reassured? I bet you are. I’d like to say I am. I’ve got a few questions, but that’s purely just loose ends, as Columbo would say. I’m sure it all stacks up.

Talking about the terror charges, Serena Kennedy, the Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, made clear that the risk to the public and emergency services who responded to the stabbing attack on July 29 was “low or very low” and no one had been contaminated or harmed by ricin. Again, reassuring?

She said that although Rudakubana has been charged with offenses under both the Biological Weapons and Terrorism Act, the stabbing incident had not been declared terror-related. What the fuck? I mean, no, sure, that makes sense.

“At this time counter terror policing have not declared the events of July 29 a terrorist incident,” she said. “I recognise these new charges may lead to speculation.” I suppose “at this time” leaves a bit of wriggle room?

She went on: “The method by which Axel Rudakubana has been charged under the Terror Act does not require motive to be established.” Er, what now? I mean, oh sure, yes, that makes sense. Absolutely.

She urged people (like me, I suppose) against speculating about Rudakubana’s motive, adding that the suspect had “a right to a fair trial.”

Okay, will do. You see, maybe this chap was just interested in jihad for educational or research purposes. And maybe he was just making ricin as a school chemistry experiment. And maybe this killing spree of his was totally unrelated to reading about jihad and making ricin. Anything is always possible.

Still, it’s interesting that terrorist-type prepping activities can now be split off from any killing spree someone then goes on. Very, very legally and politically interesting. We need to know this is how we are doing things now.

We need to know that we must not look for a motive when children are slaughtered, and we must not just assume that someone reading a jihad manual is somehow going to actually do jihad, and when he does then go on a killing spree that IS the jihad.

He has a right to a fair trial by us not connecting the two.

This was a right not afforded to Thomas Mair, by the way, after he killed Jo Cox, the left-wing Labour MP. If you remember, Thomas Mair got branded a terrorist killer after certain materials were reportedly found in his home.

No questions were asked about whether he had some incidental dodgy reading matter in his home coincidentally and that he maybe just went bonkers and killed an MP randomly, no connection. No, he was a terrorist killer.

The unemployed gardener, 53, was given a whole-life sentence after it was said he was inspired by “white supremacism.” “The slow-burning hatred that led Thomas Mair to murder Jo Cox” was the headline in The Guardian.

Will there be slow-burning hatred referred to when Axel Rudakubana comes to trial? Who knows? It’s anyone’s guess how the left-wing media will play it.

“Son of immigrants reads al-Qaeda training manual, makes ricin, then knifes children in random crime that was NOT terror” could be the headline. Are you keeping up?

I wonder what the relatives of British grandfather Peter Lynch make of all this. Mr. Lynch was found dead in jail a week ago after being sentenced to nearly three years for rioting after the stabbings.

Keir Starmer, very reasonably in some people’s view, decreed that protesters who hit the streets, shouted, and threw things would face harsh justice. Police made more than 1,500 arrests and prosecutors brought more than 1,000 charges, and nearly 400 people were jailed.

Peter Lynch was sentenced to a hefty two years eight months after he pleaded guilty to being part of a “mob” that gathered outside a Holiday Inn Express housing asylum seekers on August 4.

Of course, if it was people protesting about the killing of children in Gaza it would not have been a mob.

But anyway, 61-year-old Lynch was filmed “screaming abuse” at riot police outside the hotel.

Footage from a body-worn camera played to Sheffield Crown Court showed Lynch screaming, “You are protecting people who are killing our kids…”

Lynch was also photographed carrying a placard that called the establishment corrupt, and the court heard he was at the front of “the mob.”

Some might have said, if they hadn’t been set straight, that Mr. Lynch was being brave and speaking out.

But at that time, you may remember, everyone rioting was called “The Far Right.”

Whether or not you think he should be exonerated, it’s no use to him, because he’s dead. No further details of that yet. Will we be allowed to know how he died? Not if that knowledge would in any way mean people get upset all over again and the Southport stabber can’t get a fair trial, obviously.

The Conservatives have demanded that Keir Starmer reveals what he knew and when of the ricin and “how to do jihad” charges.

Conservative leadership contender Robert Jenrick said he was “seriously concerned that facts may have been withheld from the public”—steady on, old chap—while rival Kemi Badenoch said there were “serious questions to be asked”—no shit, Mrs. Sherlock.

The BBC reported that the most senior figures in government have been aware of the possibility of these terror charges for “weeks.”

Let’s say Keir Starmer-trooper knew of the possibility of terror charges against the Southport stabber—knew of the things found in the police search of his flat, after being briefed by police—when he called for rioters and people on social media to be dealt with as heavily as possible. What would that mean?

The mainstream media has stated again, even knowing of the new terror charges, that people protesting were reacting to “misinformation,” and putting out misinformation.

One question, sorry to ask, it’s just a little thing. What is this misinformation, exactly? What was it then and what is it now?

At the time, it emerged that some people were erroneously saying that the killer was an asylum seeker. His parents were asylum seekers, whilst he was born here.

But that doesn’t seem such a HUGE mistake, all things considered. But anyway, it was a mistake, I can see that.

Still, I don’t think that’s why people rioted. I think they rioted for the same reason they rioted in Dublin after a group of young children were stabbed there, leaving one with life-changing injuries.

I think they rioted because of a fear that someone of a certain belief system had decided to go out and stab defenseless children, believing they were terrorizing society by doing this, and that maybe this made things a tad unsafe for people, generally, and the authorities should do more about it, and maybe not deny it’s happening.

The mainstream media are still using a childhood picture of little Axel, when a perfectly good artist’s sketch from his court appearances exists, showing him to be a fully adult male.

Of course, the police could easily release a photo of him post-arrest, a mug shot, as they do when they feel like humiliating someone. They could even release details of this terrorist manual they have found. I wonder what is in it? No. Stop it.

If people wonder about what little Axel was reading in that terror manual, little Axel might not get “a fair trial.”