Yet in part, as we watch, we are killing them, too. That is the damnable thing about Ramallah and Nablus and Gaza. Consider our children, the children of Britain. When their parents abuse or neglect them, they are taken away to a place of protection. Schoolteachers can't raise a hand to them on pain of dismissal.
Children come first.
Press and television, in their own codes of conduct, echo that concern. And not just for Euan Blair or Prince Harry Windsor. If children perish, as they perished at Dunblane, we do not want to see the bodies in the playground nor the parents, engulfed in emotion, talking unwillingly to a prying camera. Children, in the purest sense, are innocents. Children come first.