London attacks: It takes village policing to stop terrorist attacks
A security crackdown only does the terrorists’ work for them by polarising neighbourhoods. Instead, the security services need to get back to working from the bottom up
The worst thing that could happen in Britain, and indeed other European countries, would be a major security crackdown, particularly one aimed at the Islamic community. If such a thing were to happen, it would largely be a cosmetic exercise aimed at reassuring the British public and the world in general that Britain was taking no nonsense.
However, I have always had confidence in the phlegmatic nature of the British public and therefore ...
