From the archives: 9/11

This Sunday marks the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. Here is the article Stephen Glover wrote for The Spectator in response:

“The terrorists want us to believe the world has ended. We must not fall into their trap.”, Stephen Glover, 15 September 2001

As those who are old enough remember what they were doing when President Kennedy was shot, so we will all recall what we were doing when we heard about the attack on New York. I was reading the controversial new book about Tina Brown and Harry Evans, which I had planned to write about for this column. Then my elder son rang me. Immediately Tina and Harry and their New York lives seemed wholly irrelevant to what was going on there now.

Here was a story which was bigger than anything that had happened for years. It was so big that if you divided it by a hundred you still had a big story.