“If the threat level can only be raised after a plot has been foiled, just what are they meant to warn us about?”
And the general point responded to likewise.
In utterly unrelated news, Sunny has a good piece over at Comment is Free expanding on ideas I pondered in that Press Gazette piece on blogs vs. columnists – so, why do newspapers hate us bloggers? (He’s even managed to attract some intelligent comments amongst the usual maniacs of CiF…)