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There were far fewer terror attacks last year. Here’s why

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

12 January 2019

9:00 AM

They don’t like to use the ‘Q’ word in counter-terrorism. It’s a bit like blurting out the name of the Scottish Play in a theatre. At Christmas parties, members of the security agencies insisted they had never been busier but once the year had turned and they were no longer tempting fate, they were prepared to admit that 2018 was a bit ‘quieter’.

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