It’s not much comfort if you are one of the dead or disabled in a terrorist attack but the odds on it happening to you are so remote, compared to being run over or involved in a car crash that it is just not worth worrying about.

I was affected last year on this date inasmuch as I travel on the tube to work and had to walk 9 miles across London to get home- a great way to see London! And the day after I was back on the tube, and it was a lot quieter than usual.

Why so unaffected by terrorism? From the age of 10 until 27 I lived in Northern Ireland- right through the “troubles”, just ten miles outside Belfast in Carrickfergus. In the 70s we could hear the Belfast bomb explosions in Carrickfergus. And I spent three years at Queen’s University in Belfast, living in the Halls of Residence on Malone road. A lovely city- with an innovative approach to urban regeneration. A policy implemented in part by the Innercity Regeneration Association or IRA for short…