Terrorism was always a boon to governments, so that they could whip up fear amongst the general public, and distract their attention away from things that really matter. And if I was being trite, I'd say like preparing for pandemics, but it was climate change, the anthropocene and proliferating inequalities that I had in mind three months ago. Hopefully, the public will become somewhat more aware that terrorism is not as prominent an issue as they feared, and we can turn our attention to those issues that should be higher up the scale. To just put this in perspective, more people will die in the UK today of CV19 as have died in the last two decades of terrorism and, in all probability, since WW2.
