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In early April, a young Londoner called Finbar Sullivan was pointlessly stabbed to death in the suburb of Primrose Hill, allegedly by a pair of non-whites called Oliuwadamilola Ogunyankinnu and Khalid Abdulqadir, whose very names evoke the final faint moans of a dying alphabet. Unlike his reported attackers, Finbar Sullivan came from a well-off, well-adjusted, upper-middle-class white family: his grandfather was a Hollywood cinematographer on movies like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Elsewhere in London during this same time-span, it turned out the real-life Planet of the Apes had already dawned. (more…)