36. Keep calm and carry on

Here we go again. Not for the first time in its history, London has been the victim of a terrorist attack. This time there was no bomb - but there was car, driving into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, followed by a knife attack at the gates of Parliament.That story is still developing - and frankly we don't feel qualified to talk about matters of terrorism, crime and security, anyway.So instead we talk about London's history as a target for political violence; the city's stoicism, real and imagined, and the way, in times of trouble, people the world over do just tend to get up and go to work; and whether Manchester really was revived by an IRA bomb. Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman's citiessite, CityMetric. It's hosted by Jonn Elledge and Stephanie Boland.

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