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The suit is a costume: the pipeline to violence

A man is charged over a machete attack in Edinburgh and the news cycle files him under lone wolf. He is not the story. He is what the pipeline produces.

6 Aug 2026 · 13 min read
"Most of what's written about places like Hartwood is either misery tourism or a plaque. I want the paper trail in between."

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