[1] To create an effective blast, you need some sort of pressure vessel containing the explosive. There is no sign of this in the photos of the Parsons Green bomb and plainly there was no “blast” as such from the condition of the bucket. Some kind of fire event was rather created. [2] If the police are arresting the right people, it is teenagers from social care backgrounds who did this. That is of a piece with what we know of so many recent attacks, where psychiatric health appears to be the cause of an interest in nihilist ideologies – as opposed to the other way round.
Source - http://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/lidl-terrorism/
What might this mean for the rest of us?
[1] Anyone who really wants to harm us can do so.
[2] There are a lot more potential causes for today's terrorism than just "Islamic extremism".
For a better understanding of what I mean, please compare to this previous blog post about some observations by Peter Hitchens:
https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2017/08/terrorism-or-drug-induced-behavior.html
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