These terror attacks won’t break Britain

Following the Second World War and the IRA bombing campaign, the Blitz spirit lives on in new generation of Britons, writes Peter Apps.

These terror attacks won’t break Britain

When I rolled my wheelchair out of my apartment block on Sunday morning — mere hours after three attackers killed seven a few hundred yards away in London Bridge and Borough Market — the most striking thing was the sense of calm.

American headlines such as that in the New York Times describing the country as “reeling” are wide of the mark.

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