Terror attack in London, pedestrians hit on London bridge

[Richard Hakluyt]

If the terrorists can clock up a couple more significant attacks in the next 2-3 months then I can see internment being re-introduced in the UK.

Hard to belief, but a newly emboldened May government might go down that cul-de-sac.

Heath's action was an equally bad and counter-productive action, but at least it was limited to one small part of the UK and there the killings were threatening to get out of hand, as that year had seen more than a hundred murdered in an area of 1.5 million people.

This year in the UK we've seen first five people killed, then twenty-two and now eight more out of 60 million, so the threat to civilised, everyday life is orders of magnitude less.

Yes. I think it would be a bad move too. There is something about locking up innocent people that gets their backs up 

I'm 50:50 on the internment in NI, leaning towards thinking they were a net negative. There was a lot more killing and in NI itself it was pretty close to a proper war rather than terrorism by a "tiny minority".

[mongers]

If the terrorists can clock up a couple more significant attacks in the next 2-3 months then I can see internment being re-introduced in the UK.

Hard to belief, but a newly emboldened May government might go down that cul-de-sac.

Heath's action was an equally bad and counter-productive action, but at least it was limited to one small part of the UK and there the killings were threatening to get out of hand, as that year had seen more than a hundred murdered in an area of 1.5 million people.

This year in the UK we've seen first five people killed, then twenty-two and now eight more out of 60 million, so the threat to civilised, everyday life is orders of magnitude less.

Yes. I think it would be a bad move too. There is something about locking up innocent people that gets their backs up 

I'm 50:50 on the internment in NI, leaning towards thinking they were a net negative. There was a lot more killing and in NI itself it was pretty close to a proper war rather than terrorism by a "tiny minority".

Indeed and on NI hard to say what might happened if it wasn't used. I suspect it was quite a clumsy tool and fired up a lot of nationalists to the cause.

[Zanza]

Trump's classy best friends:

Saudi Arabia footballers ignore minute's silence for London attack victims
• Tribute held at World Cup qualifier against Australia on Adelaide
• Saudi team carry on warming up for World Cup qualifier except one player

[HVC]

Classy for that one guy to honour it. Shame he's going to be cut from the team.

[The Brain]

It's Saudi Arabia, not Siam.

[alfred russel]

Classy for that one guy to honour it. Shame he's going to be cut from the team.

By the traditional saudi technique of cutting off his head from his body?

[Jacob]

Profile of another victim from the attacks - once again, someone who intervened to help a victim and fight back against the attackers: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40226731?ocid=socialflow_twitter

[Richard Hakluyt]

Stressing the obvious here but note how completely multinational the victims were. Only one British citizen out of the eight people killed.

[mongers]

Stressing the obvious here but note how completely multinational the victims were. Only one British citizen out of the eight people killed.

Yes, three french people, two Australians, one Spaniard, a Canadian(?) and the one Brit.

Also note the age range, oldest I think was the French tourist aged 45.

The young, haven't and aren't being deterred by the terrorism from being out and about, so the olds shouldn't be either, nor do we need further erosion of rights and liberties to confound said terrorism.

[CountDeMoney]

Stressing the obvious here but note how completely multinational the victims were. Only one British citizen out of the eight people killed.

Just goes to show you that even your tourist spots are overrun with foreigners.  So sad!

[garbon]

Stressing the obvious here but note how completely multinational the victims were. Only one British citizen out of the eight people killed.

Just goes to show you that even your tourist spots are overrun with foreigners.  So sad!

Only sad tourists actually going to look at London Bridge itself. It isn't at all interesting to look at. The interesting version of with that name is stateside.

Borough Market is definitely lousy with them.

[Josquius]

Stressing the obvious here but note how completely multinational the victims were. Only one British citizen out of the eight people killed.

It could almost be a britain first attack

[Tamas]

These people just look like they can't stand people who are not banned from fun by their religion.

[Jacob]

Yes, three french people, two Australians, one Spaniard, a Canadian(?) and the one Brit.

Yeah, a Canadian being shown around London by her fiancee.

[viper37]

a van hit muslims as they were exiting the mosque for their midnight Ramadan prayers.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2017/jun/19/north-london-van-incident-finsbury-park-casualties-collides-pedestrians-live-updates

still unsure if this was deliberate (it seems to look like it) and who did it (ISIS, or some extreme rightwing nutjob)