Daniel Finkelstein Times Online

Daniel Finkelstein in The Times:

"The first bomb attack on the World Trade Centre was in 1993. Soon after 9/11 the Government and the police began warning that a terrorist attack on British soil was inevitable. It’s years since our capital city first acquired the nickname Londonistan, because of our liberal tolerance of Islamic fanatics with terrorist inclinations.

In other words, everything we now regard as requiring immediate legislation we have known for a long, long time. How can passing laws to deal with the terrorist threat have become an emergency? It’s a mystery."