Sadly this is something that has become part of life in London. While you never want to get used to it, you have to recognise these things are going to happen. Today we are deeply thankful the device didn’t go off in the way it was intended to. We must not normalise it. We have to do everything we can to support the security services and those trying to stop this.

There is a serious step to be made to try and get to the bottom of the mentality that is feeding acts like this. When someone sets out to kill, injure or maim, that is an act of evil. I don’t believe there are irredeemably evil people. But there are evil acts.

As a Christian I am told to pray for my enemies and so I do pray for the person who caused this and how their mind and their heart might be changed. There were lots of children and elderly people on that train and the thought of someone setting out to try and injure and kill children is just hard to get your head around.