—— as the head of m15 was saying, they were able to stop and thwart 31 odd planned attacks at a later stage. but when they are spontaneous, they are incredibly difficult to stop. how much better equipped are the intelligence agencies now, then? bearing in mind that the nature of terrorism can change, can transform itself very quickly. sometimes you are dealing with large networks, sometimes you are dealing with people who are acting alone. yes, exactly. and as we have seen, particularly with the islamic state, you know, they, as al-qaeda before, looked at incentivising individuals or lone ...