London’s New Normal: Resilient, Yes. But Not Entirely Intrepid.
Two attacks later, when The New York Times printed a headline referring to Britain as "reeling," there was an outcry, too: Under the hashtag #ThingsThatLeaveBritainReeling Londoners listed everything from microwaved tea
and incompetent queuing to noisy American tourists — everything except terrorism.
But he is determined not to change his life, "because if you do," he said, "then it controls you, and you can’t let
that happen." The thing that worries Mr. Bailey the most is that attacks carried out in the name of Islam are exploited by populists.
Last weekend, in response to the latest attack, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, basically urged Londoners to go out
and party — to show off "how we pull together in the face of adversity." My friend Nadja Stokes, who runs Gourmet Goats in Borough Market, told me the market was practically mobbed by visitors who wanted to show their supprt when it reopened Wednesday.
days," Mr. Bailey said.
Bailey said that I live in a very mixed area, I work around Muslims,
The attacks came a week after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a pop concert in Manchester,
and two months after a terrorist rammed his car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing a policeman outside Parliament.
