Everyone should read this. Iain Dale's Diary: EXCLUSIVE: Sir Ian Blair Says New Terror Attack Could Lead to Internment. What you make of it is up to you of course, but such a scenario has been in the "narrative" of many dismissed as conspiracy theorists since 9/11 and probably before.

Of course there's a world of difference between a more or less random act of terror by terrorists and the authorities cooking something up in order to be able to impose such restrictions (the most strident would even suggest, in the US at least, the aim is martial law and a suspension of the constitution). But if the establishment is even discussing the idea - and of course we must be open to the possibility that this is Iain Blair speculating on what people will clamour for rather than leading the charge himself - it is truly apalling.