Of course we're not cowed by terrorism - what other choice do we have?

Stay safe, London. Stay safe, everyone. It’s nice, isn’t it, as a sentiment, which is just as well because it is the motto du jour of every celebrity who has added his or her mite to what passes as debate on the terrorist attack last Wednesday. And, my goodness, they all piled in: JK Rowling, Katy Perry, James Corden, Neil Gaiman; every man and woman of them, you’ll be pleased to hear, against this sort of thing, and urging us all – especially those not actually resident in London – to ‘stay safe’. The other trope is that ‘nothing will divide us’, that this is what terrorists want – Stella McCartney et al. This is presumably for the benefit of those people whose reaction to the man from Tunbridge Wells is to go out and punch a Muslim. This, too, is to be deplored. The third trope, the speciality of the mayor of the day, in this case, Sadiq Khan – though Ken Livingstone got there first after 7/7 – is ‘London will not be cowed’.