Further to my piece of 0436 about the Melanie Phillips article in today's Times: a short clip from another article in the same paper, not even on this topic, but supporting the point I emphasised there and again at 0554, about how the fact that previous threats ['yellow peril' &c] have not come to fruition doesn't mean that this Islamist one can't & won't ----

The Times Chief Sports Reporter, Simon Barnes, on how there are always concerns before Olympics, World Cups, &c, about how things won't be ready in time, but so far they have always managed to be, writes,

"There are always scare stories. And one day one of them will turn out to be true. To believe that something that hasn't happened before couldn't happen at all is history's most popular mistake (Louis XVI: 'The French people are incapable of regicide.')"

~M~