Terrorism strikes again at home

I'd planned to put up a post about the public and political reaction to the new Labour leadership team (and it's been good, I'm pleased to say!), but events of the last few days in London and Glasgow, and elsewhere have obviously dominated the agenda. I was on my way on the train down to London when the news of the Glasgow attack came in. I happened to look at the news just about 5 minutes after the first reports, and although it took an hour or so for the picture to become clear, the significance of the news was pretty obvious to me straightaway. It was, I'm afraid, a reminder yet again, that the threat of terrorism is very real here in the UK - and you run the risk of being a victim whatever your ethnic or religious background, whatever your political views, and whatever part of the UK you live in. (And although not surprisingly it didn't make much news in Britain, there was a terrorism incident that very same day in Ibiza, emphasising it's a world-wide problem.)



Tackling terrorism isn't easy of course, and it needs to be met in many ways - certainly not with instant reactions, and I think that both Gordon Brown and the new Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, were right to emphasise that the response needs to be considered and