Preempting terrorism, not good

Max Hastings thinks terrorist attacks are likely but doesn't care for the UK's new anti-terrorism measures:

Within five or 10 years, in the wake of further terrorist assaults in the west, new and unpleasant laws will probably have been introduced to Britain. But they should not have come yet, in the face of a threat still unproven, at the behest of a government which has shown itself unfit to exercise discretion wisely.

To wait and see is sometimes a good policy but not in this case.