Robert Skidelsky: Collective reaction to terror intensifies in spite of lower threat

The number of deaths from terrorism has fallen in Europe, but fear of it is being used to justify for more intrusive security measures, writes Robert Skidelsky.

There was, all too predictably, no shortage of political profiteering in the wake of November’s London Bridge terror attack, in which Usman Khan fatally stabbed two people before being shot dead by police.