Cutthroats in White Coats By THEODORE DALRYMPLE

The British public is by now quite used to thwarted or unsuccessful bomb attacks, and has even come to expect them. Messages relayed repeatedly over the public-address systems in airports, bus and train stations, and elsewhere have accustomed them to the idea that an unaccompanied suitcase or package is likely to be a bomb. Government officials and senior policemen tell us from time to time that bomb attacks at some point in the future are “inevitable,” in the same way that Marxists used to say that revolution was “inevitable.” Bombs are as much part of modern life as the Internet.

But the attempts in London and Glasgow nevertheless caused considerable outrage, not only, or even mainly, for the loss of life in which they would have resulted had they been successful, but because they were planned and carried out (assuming the authorities have got it right) by doctors.

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