It’s a sign we are winning

STRANGE as it seems, the security clamp is a sign the west is beating IS.

In the past two years the group has been turfed out of huge areas of the Middle East. Special forces and intelligence agencies are wiping out the final remnants. But as they do so, the survivors slink underground.

Commanders are desperate to maintain momentum. As they lick their wounds, they post the kind of twisted warnings we have seen recently. It is counter-intuitive for terrorists to give away their game. So they can only be doing it for one reason – to encourage lone wolves and small groups to attack. The jihadis have succeeded in encouraging ramming and knife attacks such as those at Westminster and London Bridge in which 13 people lost their lives.

So now is the time for extra vigilance as IS desperately strives to wreak revenge at home for the defeats abroad.

And, with public help, our counterterror agencies will smash plots to repeat recent atrocities and stop the terrorists making their bloody presence felt once again in Britain.