July 17, 2017

Delayed Gratification: How the UK deals with terror – Interview with Yan St-Pierre

July 15th, 2017

Delayed Gratification

Matthew Lee, slow journalist at Delayed Gratification, interviewed Yan St-Pierre on how the UK deals with terror for their latest issue (#26).

“Westminster, of course, is a classic terror target – terrorism is a battle over symbols, and terrorists want to demonstrate that even the heart of power in a country is vulnerable – and so the authorities have plenty of experience of counter-terrorism in this part of London, especially in the 1980s and 1990s with the IRA. But defending against vehicleramming attacks is difficult because completely closing the area to cars isn’t viable. Perhaps in the future urban construction will incorporate more bollards or bumps to make it harder for cars to pick up speed in areas where large crowds gather.”

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