As information slowly emerges about the Thursday’s tragic events of this morning in London, there is naturally a good deal of speculation about who the perpetrators of these attacks are, were, whether could anything could have been done to prevent these attacks them and what the response of both the British people and government will be.

Unfortunately It does look as if what has long been predicted since September 11 2001 has finally happened. The UK has suffered a significant attack terrorist attack that, at these very early stages, has all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda. However, it is too soon for the government to reach such a conclusion.