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If the intelligence is so good, then how do these things happen at all? It is important to remember that the conviction rate of those arrested for terrorist offences is well below one per cent. And just look at when, exactly, these things seem to happen: always politically the most convenient times. Brown’s National Government is one of the biggest political stories since the War, possibly the biggest of all. But who is covering it?

Nor is anyone mentioning which side we are on in Kosovo, or in Chechnya, or in Saudi Arabia (the only country on earth with which America has a special relationship, and very special it is too), or in Pakistan, or in welcoming the Turkish Caliphate into NATO and putatively into the EU, or in removing one of the two principal Arab bulwarks against the worst expression of each of the two main branches of Islam, or in threatening to remove the other such bulwark, or in encourgaing the mass immigration without which our greedy and philistine capitalism cannot function.

The Chief of Staff of the IRA at the height of its mainland bombing campaign sails merrily on as Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, still believing the Provisional Army Council, of which he is a member, to be the sovereign body throughout Ireland.

And the new Scottish Executive might have been quite a hard nut to crack over the massive curtailments on liberty which will now be demanded in order to prevent massive curtailments on liberty. But not now. Presumably...