I'm a firm believer that the whole "Terrorism" illusion has been foisted in order to maintain control of increasingly uncontrollable populations (as information is a powerful weapon).
Note the way voting patterns are trending in the UK, long term, with both major parties from the historical duopoly now in decline and more people voting for a minority party than for the eventual government. Note the way the UK is being marketed as a hub for international finance and London turned into a dormitory town for global billionaires. Every government since Bloody Sunday has been worried about public insurrection somewhere, to some extent: arguably the UK is in a long-term trend towards what used to be called a pre-revolutionary situation, as the interests of the general populace and the elite diverge.
(The real solution is a sustained dose of Piketty's proposed wealth tax, and any other measures necessary to reduce the widening Gini coefficient, but neither the Conservative or Labour parties, which are both in hock to the capital accumulators, are able to address the problem effectively.)
Note the way voting patterns are trending in the UK, long term, with both major parties from the historical duopoly now in decline and more people voting for a minority party than for the eventual government. Note the way the UK is being marketed as a hub for international finance and London turned into a dormitory town for global billionaires. Every government since Bloody Sunday has been worried about public insurrection somewhere, to some extent: arguably the UK is in a long-term trend towards what used to be called a pre-revolutionary situation, as the interests of the general populace and the elite diverge.
(The real solution is a sustained dose of Piketty's proposed wealth tax, and any other measures necessary to reduce the widening Gini coefficient, but neither the Conservative or Labour parties, which are both in hock to the capital accumulators, are able to address the problem effectively.)