Riots

I haven't followed the news much at all since the early 1990s, I have enough 'difficulties' etc as it is. My father was expected to 'keep abreast' of the news of the day in his lifetime career as a senior member of staff in the MoD. He would 'religiously' read the Daily Telegraph (not The Sun or Daily Star) every day and watch the 10 o'clock news. It didn't do him much good (in fact, quite the contrary) from where I was standing and I do neither / none of that as a consequence (I'm here on NAS online forum instead, at times / 'in moderation') 

I haven't followed the news much at all since the early 1990s, I have enough 'difficulties' etc as it is. My father was expected to 'keep abreast' of the news of the day in his lifetime career as a senior member of staff in the MoD. He would 'religiously' read the Daily Telegraph (not The Sun or Daily Star) every day and watch the 10 o'clock news. It didn't do him much good (in fact, quite the contrary) from where I was standing and I do neither / none of that as a consequence (I'm here on NAS online forum instead, at times / 'in moderation') 

We're all "in moderation" now...

There is something to be said for that.  "Watching the news during troublesome times can take a toll on our mental health. When major world events are taking place, we can find ourselves hooked on the news and feeling as though we need to know everything, but this behaviour, known as doomscrolling, can be to the detriment of our mental health.  ... ":

https://patient.info/news-and-features/is-watching-the-news-bad-for-your-mental-health

Immigration and the issue of terrorism is a long standing problem.

"Embassy staff were also warned to be vigilant about the addresses in the UK given by
applicants. In a letter from Patrick Walker in the Home Office to Trevor Gatty in the FCO,
Walker remarked that “[m]ost terrorists have given London addresses on their visa
applications” and that a solution to terrorists giving false addresses would be to provide
visa officers with copies of the London telephone directory “so that they have some means
of checking quickly the addresses in those cases where they have doubts about the
applicant’s bona fides.”   65. Letter from P. J. Walker to T. T. Gatty, August 26, 1980, FCO 50/685, NA

While my father was head of migration and visa dept at the FO1980-1981.