Two years ago this week, suicide bombs on three tube trains and a bus killed 52 people in London. And only last week further carnage was avoided when bombers narrowly failed to detonate cars bombs in central London and at Glasgow Airport. Few details have emerged about the perpetrators of last week's attacks, but it is believed that like the 7/7 London bombers, they were inspired by a warped view of Islam.
The Government has admitted that police investigations can only deal with the symptoms of the problem. So last autumn it set up the Preventing Violent Extremism Team at the Home Office, which has since been moved to Communities and Local Government.
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