The game is up

THE bombs that ripped through London last Thursday morning made Britain face up to harsh new realities.

Most of them were grim, awful, frightening. One obvious one that came in the backwash was this: that, for the first time in 35 years, the organisation striking terror into the heart of Britain is no longer the IRA.

Terror has moved on a generation. The new wave has ratcheted savagery and indiscriminate killing to unthinkable levels.