A touch of Birthday humour

Our Emergency Services........

...............have done brilliantly over the past few days. No doubt the terrorist threat will be on delegates minds at a conference I'll be chairing tomorrow in the West Midlands

Paddy Ashdown on the BBC this morning, pointed out the failure of politicians and others in failing to understand the grievances of many disaffected young Muslims. He said, and I'm paraphrasing here, "as much effort should be put into engaging with Muslim youth as we are in trying to capture those responsible for the incidents in London and Glasgow".

Many would agree but as many would think this softer approach just encourages lawlessness.

What do you think?