Short memories

John Reid says that the UK faces its "most sustained period of severe threat since the end of World War II."

For Dr Reid's reference, I append a useful table showing a strictly random sample of threats since World War II:

Threat	Severity	Sustained for
A few dozen suicidal maniacs with backpacks full of explosives	Bad	Five years and counting
A hostile superpower with a million Hiroshimas at its fingertips using the UK as target practice	Quite a lot worse	30+ years

Admittedly this table omits one threat, but I'm sure that can't be the one Dr Reid is thinking about...

Threat	Severity	Sustained for
Editorial in the Daily Mail lambasting the Home Office for allowing human rights considerations to get in the way of shooting brown people	To John Reid's career	Until The Sun trumps it with a new paedophilia story, i.e. several whole days