UK lowers threat level as Manchester bomber photos released

Threat levels have been going up and down in the UK for years. Most people you meet there aren't bothered by the changing status and go about their business. It's very refreshing and hysteria free.

But there is an undercurrent of real frustration and growing dislike! There was a coordinated network in the recent Manchester bombing.

11 arrested means others also had knowledge.Manchester has had a terrorist nest in its midst

The US attack in Oregon is part of a rising sentiment.

Attacks are rising against Muslims in the UK due to these attacks.

Attacks are rising against Muslims in the UK due to these attacks.

Attacks on Polish people and other minorities rose in the wake of Brexit. Attacks on Irish people rose during the "troubles". Idiots lash out because they don't know what else to do.

Fortunately, the majority of British people don't subscribe to that way of thinking.

And isn't it inspiring to see the country go about its business and enjoy the BHW. Good on 'em.

Keep calm and carry on, indeed.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/26/heroic-black-humour-hatred-choose-british-values

@Toasted Heretic

I saw the article you linked to earlier and enjoyed the trashing of Katie Hopkins - a real sewer dweller.

However, this paragraph got my back up a little:

But their cause is not – to borrow an insult they can understand – true Britishness. It is a perverted form of Britishness, because it has no jokes

I just hope the Guardian, with its impeccable freedom of speech values and love of our wicked sense of humour, reacts in the same way if someone 'insults' or satirizes certain religious sensibilities.

I wonder.

these threat levels only make people believe all muslims are potential terrorist, help the govt fund certain projects like proxy wars and arming rebels, increase survailane of citizens and erode civil liberties.

people from an older generation remember the IRA stuff and at that time didn't freak out, just accepted train delays as the norm. but now with mass media fearmongering, the Sun newsrag and Daily Mail are still very popular, so of course people will hate.

Of course other communities have seen problems but unfortunately where there are proportionally higher numbers of Muslims in a country there are a larger number of attacks.

This is a problem which needs to be addressed.

I just hope the Guardian, with its impeccable freedom of speech values and love of our wicked sense of humour, reacts in the same way if someone 'insults' or satirizes certain religious sensibilities. I wonder.

Insult/satirise the pomposity of religion not the people, I guess. Did not the Grauniad show solidarity with Charlie Hebdo - no stranger to "satire" on religion?

Insult/satirise the pomposity of religion not the people, I guess. Did not the Grauniad show solidarity with Charlie Hebdo - no stranger to "satire" on religion?

Ssems like that solidarity didn't stretch to showing the cartoons. I suppose the Guardian wasn't alone.

How soon the murdered of the concert attack have been forgotten and replaced with misguided concern.